These officers have been going around the country perpetuating the lies concocted in Mugabe’s office in a vain attempt to convince the rank and file that they have no future under an MDC government.
Statements to the effect that an MDC government would fire all policemen, attributed to MDC secretary general-Tendai Biti,have been repeated and nauseum. Yet even the junta’s own mouthpiece – the Herald – has conceded that the document containing these statements has been proved to be fraudulent.
At no time did Biti, or any other MDC leader, make such a ridiculous statement. The people who are continuing to peddle this lie know full well that it is a lie – and yet they persist .
Zanu (PF) has nothing positive to say. They cannot talk about themselves because their track record of violence and corruption is so ghastly. And the results of it are there for all to see. They can only campaign by smearing the MDC and terrorizing the voters.
The rank and file of the police and security forces should recognize these lies for what they are – the last kicks of a dying horse. They should understand, as indeed most Zimbabweans do, that their only chance of survival is now an MDC government. Surely they can see the writing on their wall. Their salaries buy nothing now. No matter how many times Mugabe increases them, they will still be worthless.
When they need food, or their families need medical attention or their children need education, they cannot help but come face to face with Mugabe’s legacy – empty shelves, hospitals without drugs and schools without teachers.
Unless the government changes, nothing will change. Their children will be condemned to ignorance and poverty – while the Zanu (PF) fat cats who give them their orders fly their children abroad to school and, when they are ill, rush to private clinics in South Africa
Only an MDC government can change this. Only an MDC government can bring about the international recognition and assistance that can help to re-build the dreadful devastation that almost three decades of Zanu (PF) rule have wrought on our once beautiful and prosperous nation.
Zimbabwe will be a much better place without Mugabe and his generals. There is life after Mugabe and the police and army need to play their role now in bringing that about- by protecting Zimbabweans, as a is their constitutional responsibility, rather than protecting an aged dictator who will not hesitate to destroy them once they have ceased to serve his purpose.
Word of Today
God is our refuge and strength , an ever present help in trouble. Therefore we will not fear, though the earth give way and the mountains fall into the heart of the sea, though its waters roar and foam and the mountains quake with their surging. Psalm 46