A Nation Without a Moral Foundation

 We desperately need a new quality of life. Some superior quality of life that is above resentment, jealousy and greedy. The best way to do this is to have leaders who confess their own shortcomings instead of spotlighting that of others.
The leaders we have today are failing to do that. President Mugabe is always shouting at Bush, Blair and now Gordon. There is no problem in highlighting the mistakes of fellow leaders such as the invasion of Iraq. However, this does not mean you should fail to recognize the log in your own eye. Mugabe blames everything on sanctions, but he does not want to admit that his colleagues are thieves and are also corrupt. This has also contributed to the free fall of the economy.
We have totally failed to win the war against corruption. When Gono began fighting corruption he received threats from some people. Is there any ordinary man who can threaten Gono? Many parastatals in this country were paralyzed by corruption. Some of the examples are Noczim, Zesa, GMB, and PTC only to mention a few.
The culprits were never brought to book because they are powerful people. Presidential aspirant Dr Simba Makoni said, National institutions have been corrupted, privatized and politicized. There is a scourge of patronage and gross abuse of power and culture of chiefdom. This is the Zimbabwe we have today. We need to create a new dawn in Zimbabwe that will put food on the table.
In 2004 the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development was given Z$1, 5 trillion by the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe. This money was for the procurement of tractors and combine harvesters, upgrading irrigation facilities as well as purchasing fertilizer meant for new farmers. Government officials, politicians and civil servants allocated themselves the equipment that was acquired by RBZ for the new farmers.
Some of the new farmers who had grown wheat even failed to access combine harvesters allocated to ARDA resulting in the crop being damaged by early rains. We go around the world spreading the gospel of land yet we give our farm workers Z$40 million that is not even enough to buy 2 litres of cooking oil. The subsidized fuel allocated to new farmers is being diverted on the black market.
Towards the end of 2007 our country experienced massive cash shortages. According to RBZ Governor out of Z$67 trillion that was printed only Z$2 trillion was in circulation. By that time majority of Zimbabweans were earning about 50 million. Even though they could not get that 50 million since the banks had no money. Where was the rest of the money? It was with the cash barons who are the chefs in influential positions.
When Gono took some measures to recover the money, many people expected that high-ranking officials would be arrested but none of that happened. During that year’s Zanu (PF) congress, Gono had this to say, Nyika ino iri kurasikirwa nemari yakawanda chaizvo pamusana pedu isu vamunoti machef , kana kuti vamakaisa pazvigaro zvinokosha , mungave muhurumende , muparty , mumapraststal , mulocal government kana mumabhizimisi kusanganisira mumabanks.
The real truth is that the so-called chefs are the people who have destroyed the country. Mugabe has just extended the terms of army generals and that of Chihuri. He wants them on his side. They protect each other for they have been buddies of the unholy alliance for a long time.
This affects the running of the whole nation because from the executive, judiciary and legislature there is gross abuse of power and corruption. No matter how many cases of corruption that arises nothing will be done about it. There is only one solution to all this and that is the removal of Mugabe and all these people. 29 March is the day for every Zimbabwean to do that.
All chefs must go. What justice do you expect from the people who have been at the helm of power for the last 28 years? A lot has happened no one has the power to punish another because either way one knows the other’s secrets. So the only way is for them is to stick together.