Zimbabwe’s economic misery has lately seen the emergency serious cash shortages with the government’s plan mitigate the problem by introducing so-called bond notes widely ridiculed by locals.
The administration has also failed to pay civil servants on time with salaries for the army and police delayed by almost two weeks while teachers, doctors and nurses will only get their June wages in July.
Wary of upsetting the security services and giving cause for mutiny, the government has usually tried to pay the army and police on time – but not this month.
“It is just a matter of time before the soldiers themselves will not been paid in time; before the government (is) totally unable to pay (its workers),†said MDC-T spokesman Obert Gutu.
He was addressing a public meeting in Harare organised by Mass Public Opinion Institute on Thursday.
Gutu warned that President Mugabe risked being forced into exile like former Zaire (now DRC) leader Mabuto Sese Seko.
Mobutu ruled his country for 31 years. He was overthrown in 1997 and died in exile in Morocco a few months later.
“This is a kind of crisis that was happening in the then Zaire. Mobutu started by staggering paying civil servants, just like what is happening in Zimbabwe. So another Zaire is playing out in Zimbabwe,†said Gutu.
“Staggering; staggering, staggering for a whole eight months he failed to pay civil servants and, unfortunately for him, he failed to pay his soldiers.
“The next thing they (soldiers) were doing was looting shops in Kinshasa and Lubumbashi and the rest is history.â€
Gutu said although his MDC-T party does not want war in Zimbabwe, a coup against Mugabe was inevitable.
“We are confident that at the rate at which the Zanu PF regime is going, very soon Mugabe is going to (go) the Mobutu (way). He will be going to Singapore, Hong Kong or to Malaysia.
“Those guys with guns; if you do not pay them they won’t messy up. They will just go to the shops and loot and we the citizens will join (them) and it will be a mayhem – that is it and done!â€
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come on army and police what you waiting for ? about time you stopped playing puppet to these evil puppet masters and installed a government that actually cares for its citizens well being.
The army and police need to wake up and be on the side of the people! They are part of the people not the ruling elite. The security forces must be on the right side of history and help the people topple this corrupt government that has stolen everything from the people.