That President Robert Mugabe is a close supporter of Gaddafi is well known by everyone, as is the fact that the Zanu (PF) leader and his followers are completely incapable and unwilling to accept change.
But what is to be gained by opposing change in faraway Tripoli? Especially when their man there, Gaddafi, has now been reduced to a runaway criminal wanted for his many horrible crimes against Libyans in particular and humanity in general.
Gaddafi’s capture, dead or alive, is only a matter of time – that is if he has not already been captured by the time you read this.
We are aware of the cozy relationship between Mugabe and his Zanu (PF) and Gaddafi and his family. Many business deals were concluded between them – NOT, of course, always to the benefit of ordinary Zimbabweans or Libyans. But that is not the point.
The point is: wouldn’t it be wiser for Zanu (PF), which, rather than the unity government, appears to set Zimbabwe’s foreign policy, to embrace the rebels. They are now the new rulers of Libya. Why keep clinging on to the clearly vanquished Brother Leader?
Surely accepting the rebels, as every other government with a sensible foreign policy is doing, is the only way to ensure future relations with Libya are good and beneficial – hopefully this time to all citizens, not just the leaders.
The reason given by foreign affairs permanent secretary Joey Bimha for showing the middle finger to the rebels by declaring Elmagrahi persona non grata is laughable.
Bimha said the ambassador no longer had any business in Harare because by raising the rebel’s flag he had broken ranks with the man who sent him to Zimbabwe.
Clearly, Bimha and his bosses at Zanu (PF) headquarters seem not aware of what the rest of us have known all along: the man who sent Elmagrahi to Harare – the ‘King of Kings’ – now belongs in the dustbin of history.
And refusing to accept or acknowledge the reality that the rebels’ National Transitional Council are the people to do business with in Libya today is simply to stand on the wrong side of history.
Unfortunately this is what Mugabe and Zanu (PF) have chosen to do in the name of us all. It is truly regrettable.
Post published in: Editor: Wilf Mbanga
One genocidal dictator supporting another – nothing surprising there – birds of a feather!
Or maybe just coveting Gadaffi loot. Offer him a house next door to Haile Mengistu Miriam and maybe he will share his 140 tons of gold bars with you!
Well Wilf old fruit, maybe you cannot see why St. Robert would expel the Libyan ambassador, but think how it embarrassing it could be be for him were the ambassador AND “Colonel” Ghadafi to have to share an Embassy.
OK: “Colonel” Ghadafi would have to commute from Gunninghill.