Zimbabwe is ours: paper for CIO meeting

The author of the draft paper “Zimbabwe is Ours” is a senior CIO chef or commander who makes a passionate plea to his colleagues to rededicate themselves to defending the revolution and that they remain as vigilant as ever before.

It is very sad that we always have to prosecute business people who are stuffing their hard-earned money away in foreign accounts, for example, in Switzerland, the United Kingdom (UK) and even Hong Kong.

This externalisation of the scarce foreign currency is against the law of Zimbabwe and we have to be very strict about it.

We have to put our own administrators at the helm of those companies found practising this treasonous activity and manage them ourselves, because we cannot afford their gains going out of the country which needs so much reinvestment for treating drinking water, repair of coal mining equipment and electricity infrastructure like transformers, which are hard to confiscate for personal purposes.

We need those funds not for ourselves but for paying decent wages and providing drugs to the youth militia, who do our dirty jobs harassing perceived oppositionals in the rural areas, so that we can pretend not to be involved.

It is indeed the devastated economy, which forces us to be merciless on the issue of externalising revenues. Because the economy is so run down and while we were running it down, we had to externalise money ourselves to Switzerland, the UK and even Hong Kong which seemed prudent in terms of securing the money from the inflation (we were forced to bring about the inflation because otherwise we would have been unable to fund the violent election campaign among other things).

Unfortunate

But on the other hand it is very unfortunate, as some of the foreign countries hosting our hard-embezzled funds tend to freeze those funds as they please and deny us the luxury of going shopping around the world for extremely ugly and overcharged handbags.

As you all know how much our wives haunt us for those handbags and luxury shoes for their very slim feet, they are inhibited to shop.

So one can frankly say it’s those illegal sanctions that haunt the country as well as us through our wives.

It is fortunate though that we can share the burden of calling for the end of those sanctions with the Southern African Development Community (SADC).

Another point to complain about is the tendency by the independent media to bring new newspapers into the market, creating competition and even rivalry for the minds of the electorate. You cannot sleep calmly at night as the independent media people constantly ask for licences.

First, our enemies destroyed the body which was in charge of licencing and established a strange new body to select the members through interviews and guess what, all our people failed those interviews dismally as they were all too frank about their attitudes.

Media hangmen

So we had a headache trying to figure out how we could bring back our media hangmen of the past and some other sympathisers onto the list of successful candidates and even as chairperson.

We were so desperate about the fact that we could not get things done our way and ended up appointing those trusted friends of ours through our highly placed friend who by no means had the legal authority to make those appointments.

This was not in any way a good way to do things and perhaps we cannot maintain it but it was worth the try. At least the friends within the commission as well as outside will delay the whole process for a while.

The commission itself, we decided, can only be appointed officially when all the other commissions (to be composed) which have nothing to do with this one (commissions for human rights, anti-corruption and electoral commission we do not even understand what these concepts mean) and which are still very being discussed, will also be ready for official appointment.

That can take time and we will do everything to delay it. All the media licences, which are available at the moment, we need for our own purposes.

All this is very embarrassing and when you ask naively why we do not just give out licences for broadcasting and newspapers, there is a very good reason: We suspect that those media people want to publish political issues which is a waste and does not make any sense because it is us who already publish those issues.

Political mouthpieces

We have warned them strongly not to become politicians but to stay as journalists, because we dont have real journalists now as all our state media men and women either have long become our political mouthpieces or they had been politicians in the first place and therefore behave exactly the way we dont want from the other side of our colleagues in the so-called unity government.

In all this unnecessary fuss there is only one good thing: We have nothing to fear from the SADC, the guarantor of the Global Political Agreement (GNU), on that matter.

We as patriots did not only die in the liberation struggle, we also dedicated ourselves to the land grab issue. We have brainwashed the whole nation about the importance of the fact that no white person Zimbabwean or not should be allowed to own our holy motherly national soil for agricultural use.

We have brainwashed our people, too, so much that they really dont mind that the soil is now belonging to our highest positioned and richest ZANU PF politicians and military men on behalf of the landless people.

The land issue is so important for us that we tolerate and even further violence, robbery, murder on the farms and disrespect and contempt of the courts as well as the disruption of international and bilateral contracts although it turned out long ago that food security was compromised by that policy so that our people, but of course not ourselves, depend year after year on the handouts of our neo-colonial enemies.

Sanctity of land

And on top of that and even worse, that policy has helped ruin the whole economy but all this has to be ignored on the grounds of the ostensible sanctity of the land issue. What more will we be asked to sacrifice?

Of late we unfortunately have witnessed some experts say that in fact there was nothing holy about the motherly soil of agriculture and it should be worked by farmers irrespective of their skin colour as long as they have the skills and know exactly what they are doing as in every other developed country just for the benefit of the whole economy which itself serves all other economic sectors.

Such heretical utterances leave us seething in anger and disappointment. Our only humble wish is to carry on as we did during the last 10 years or even longer namely to enjoy the resources and assets of our country.

Why do they not leave us alone?

Altogether there is more and more ungratefulness around us, which must motivate us to frantically stem all such ideas, even if it means waging war against our own people. We have used that threat so often you know that thing about bullets and ballots it is really tiring.

Our principles and our liberation war credentials must prevail and we have the means to uphold those principles. It was very prudent of us to make it very clear, that we would in fact use bullets on our people, in order to prevent SADC heaping any nonsense upon us.

Gentlemen, let us again lay hand in hand and money in hand to renew our oath to fight for our great national principles. Zimbabwe is ours!

I thank you.

Central Intelligence Organisation (CIO) chef.

EDITORS NOTE: The above article first appeared on the ZimOnline website.