Brandishing a rifle, the person acting as Mugabe was dressed in classical Arab attire so that he would not be mistaken for one of what Gaddafi describes as ‘Libyan rats’. Before disappearing in his golf cart down one of the tunnels leading to Gaddafi’s compound, Mugabe said everyone was happy in Libya until the Western gangsters started bombing the place to find more oil. ‘Don’t they know it doesn’t spring from rocks?’
Asked whether Gaddafi had been annoyed when Zimbabwe didn’t pay its $360 million bill for oil, Mugabe said: ‘That’s all oil under the bridge now. I explained to him that Zimbabwe had no reason to pay as we had used up all the oil’.
The Vigil was puzzled why travel-junkie Mugabe missed the opportunity of centre stage at the AU summit to raise money for the drought-stricken Horn of Africa. Only four heads of state turned up so he could have spoken for 50 or so friends in tribute to the AU which has so far pledged a less than munificent half a million dollars towards an appeal for $1.4 billion.
FOR THE RECORD: 60 signed the register.
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