Curiously he wants the country to go through the motions of an election which, he says, Mugabe will win. But if Mugabe doesn't win he says he will not salute the winner (Morgan Tsvangirai). This is not new. The top brass in the security forces is in the habit of issuing such threats just before elections in their desperate attempts to influence the outcome of the polls.
Here we have a public servant, who is paid handsomely from our tax dollars – as well as from Zanu (PF) projects such as Chiadzwa diamond fields – declaring his membership of a political party.
Does he know something about the forthcoming elections that we don't?
What more proof does SADC need that security sector reforms are imperative. We have this self-important Idi Amin type soldier deciding for us who should or should not rule Zimbabwe.
The problem we have is that he is not alone. There are hundreds of his type in our armed forces, who think like he does. In most countries he would have been dishonourably discharged from the army for uttering political statements, if not put behind bars for his treasonous suggestions.
We wonder how long any other soldier would have lasted if he were publicly to state that he would not salute Robert Mugabe if he won the next election.
Can SADC please tell us: What is the point of having elections when the army has made it so patently clear that they will only accept one outcome?
Post published in: Editor: Wilf Mbanga