Stop politicking about cholera pandemic
My Dear People The antics of the dispensation of poverty, darkness and confusion never cease to amuse and ba e in equal measure. The Scarfmore regime has been making a huge fuss about taking over the role of local councils particularly those controlled by the opposition Citizens Coalition for Change in the face of a raging cholera epidemic.
Usually such an announcement by a government of taking over from local councils amid a national crisis would be a source of comfort, of celebration even.
However, when such an announcement was made by the Ngwena led regime, it was undoubtedly met with no small measure of dread and anxiety.
This is with good reason given the appalling record of incompetence of the Lacoste regime.
It would be laughable if it was not so tragic that the Scarfmore regime wants to take over local councils in the ght against cholera when they have presided over a local currency that has lost more than 90% of its value in the last 12 months.
It is mind boggling that a government that has run down the health sector to the extent that public hospitals have become death traps with the lack of even the most basic facilities thinks it can take over and lead the ght against cholera.
Incidents of cholera patients being treated under a tree bears testimony to the ineptitude of the so-called second repubric.
It would be delusion on an industridi, al scale to expect a regime that has superintended over power outages of up to 18 hours a day that has crippled industry to actually take over the councils and successfully ght the cholera scourge.
Given its track record of abysmal failure, the intended takeover by the government to ght the cholera scourge has the distinct feeling of one stitching up the backside to cure diarrhea.
The announcement that the setting up of a complaints commission against members of security forces is imminent is likely to be met with even less enthusiasm than that of the Scarfmore regime’s announcement that it will take over the ght against cholera.
The Lacoste cabal have done absolutely zilch to implement the recommendations by the commission that was led by the former South African president Kgalema Motlanthe, which called for the soldiers who shot and killed citizens during protests over election results on August 1 2018 to be brought to account.
Even the calls by the European Union and the United States, among others, for Scarfmore to implement the recommendations of the commission he set up has fallen on deaf ears.
It is foolhardy to expect that an ordinary citizen will have any success in having their complaints adequately addressed when even commissions set up by the Lacoste cabal are ignored.
If anything the commission will be as toothless as the National Peace and Reconciliation Commission, which has been reduced to making banal statements in the media.
The revelation in one state rag that funding for hearings over Gukurahuna period in which thousands from the Midlands and Matabeleland were massacred in the 1980s, are still to be
nalised clearly shows the lack of seriousness by the Scarfmore regime to tackle the issue.
That funding for hearings is still to be concluded despite numerous pronouncements by Ngwena that he was committed to address the issue dating way back to 2017 when he was catapulted into power on the back of guns and tanks, is an indication of low it is on the cabal’s list of priorities.
Infact, one gets the feeling that this is more of the dispensation of poverty, darkness and confusion going through the motions than an actual desire to substantively tackle the grievances, and bring about national healing.
The destruction of plaques set up in honour of those who lost their lives during this period only strengthens the belief that the Ngwena regime is paying lip service to the whole issue.
No one quite does irony like Zanu PF rabble rouser and loudmouth Chris Mutsvangwa.
In a recent press conference he chastised the CCC Mount Pleasant Member of Parliament Fadzai Mahere for her forthright criticism of the Lacoste cabal' shandling of the economy including the disastrous 2024 national budget by the nutty professor and Finance minister Mthuli Ncube.
He castigated her saying her comments showed she had no grasp of economic a airs.
Unopenga!!!
That is rich coming from Mutsvangwa whose party has shown time and again how it is totally at sea in regard to a functioning economy.
In ation levels of more than 800% is ample testimony to how the clueless Lacoste cabal has totally no grasp of how to run an economy.
The only answer it ever has to the economic catastrophe, which has been spawned by the regime’s scorched earth policies, is to blame others, be it business or western countries of sabotage without looking at their own glaring inadequacies.
Given the shambolic state of the economy, Mutsvangwa and co should look closer to home when it comes to the lack of grasp of basic economics before shooting o their traps.