letter to my people:BY DOCTOR STOP IT
My Dear people, Let me start by saying you cannot buy class.
If anything, it is the type of behaviour that low lives display when in the presence of money that shows their lack of class.
Zimbabwe is such a wonderful country. It is blessed with good people with beautiful hearts.
It also has good soils and a wonderful climate that make it ideal for the growth of many types of crops and the rearing of any livestock or poultry.
It is blessed with beautiful scenery, tourist attractions, fauna and flora and a vast array of mineral resources.
Complete with allegations that Zimbabweans are educated, the above combination should make us the envy of the world and not the butt of jokes all over the world.
We should be leading by example and showing the rest of the world how things are done in a normal, decent and civilised society.
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It is, therefore, revolting to see certain aspects of Zimbabwean life being taken over by the mafia, thugs, criminals, gangsters and cartels.
In the end, we become like that uncle that is always an embarrassment and disruptive at all family events.
He never seems bothered by the level of embarrassment that he causes because half, if not most of the time, he is always drunk.
Secondly, there are some people who privately go to the source of family embarrassment and applaud him for his actions.
What is government policy on gifts?
Recently there was an embarrassing story about one of President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s aides stealing a phone donated to the head of state and government, commander-in-chief of the Zimbabwe Defence Forces, chancellor of all state universities, president and first secretary of the ruling party and head of the first family and many more.
It should not surprise many people to learn, as they did with Gushungo, that ED is also a chief where he comes from and that he is also a deacon at all the churches that he visits on a regular basis with Auxillia in tow.
Anyway, back to the cellphone theft.
The incident brought to the fore an issue of basic good governance, transparency and accountability.
If a government official such as a teacher, headmaster, minister, district administrator or president receives a gift while on government duty, do they keep those gifts for themselves?
Good governance and a sprinkling of class would dictate that since they were donated while on government assignment, they should be deemed property of the people of Zimbabwe up to a certain value.
Such gifts could be auctioned at the end of the year or donated to charitable organisations or needy people.
Of course, a bit of class and sophistication and a strong spirit of good governance, transparency and accountability would be required before any of this could be implemented.
But if we could try it, we would have moved up the ladder on basic issues of accountability.
But obviously no hope there. Anybody moving such a motion would be accused of being an MDCA member.
Staying away from stupid scandals As a government, the Junta PF needs to stay away from some basic scandals that even the most unsophisticated governments in the world, such as the junta, would not do.
Today we won’t mention the jailing of wives or impregnating students.
You cannot have senior government ministers and National Assembly members stay in five-star hotels, that is a big No, No.
That would be tantamount to taking us back to the days of Phelekezela Mphoko, who caused unnecessary attention by staying at Rainbow Towers.
If there are any senior government officials who are still staying in hotels, then they need to be kicked out of those hotels immediately unless they are paying for themselves, which is almost impossible for that mean lot.
Then there were those nasty rumours that dad authorised a favourite daughter to go and loot about US$2 million from a bank connected to the government.
Surely that is the kind of crude, gross and crass dictatorship associated with mad men of Africa such as Idi Amin, Jean Bedel Bokassa and Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo.
Nobody sends their children to go and collect US dollars from the central bank’s vaults in this day and age. It’s crazy. That story needs to be attended to immediately! It is important to note that the excesses, real or imagined, of children and the wife can be a source of pressure for serving dictatorships, which is why any sane leader should read this column.
Remember how images of Chatunga and Robert Mugabe Junior having wild parties in South Africa became subjects for hot discussions back home in Zimbabwe.
We won’t mention mummy’s shopping jaunts for houses, cars and clothes which helped alienate her from the people — that is why recent reports that the government had, without going to tender, allowed a company of some of our young royals to rape and pillage the state through being awarded a tender to supply a single Covid-19 unit at US$28 when the market price is US$4.
Surely, if true, that cannot be acceptable as it is morally wrong.
It is the kind of things that make ordinary people angry.
Then there is the issue of the whole of Sadc rushing off to defend the genocide that the people of northern Mozambique have been subjected to for decades.
Do most of these states understand what is going on? Is it about fighting Islamists or it’s another DRC excursion?
Will the citizens of Sadc benefit or it will be regional cartels, mafia, criminals and gangsters who will benefit?
Ntombizodwa woyeee! Chatunga woyeeeeee! Dr Amai Stop it! PhD (Fake)
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