Sanctions not an MDC creation
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Published: February 8, 2010
Chakwanda Mangelepa
The much-touted removal of sanctions has taken a knock with stunning revelations that the common Zimbabwean is in-fact not hurt by the restrictions and precisely calls to have them removed are in the context of loosening the vice grip that has held Robert Mugabe’s cronies on manacles as they cannot travel anywhere in the West.
An official in Arthur Mutambara’s minority formation of the MDC has said that the Zimbabwean economy has infact stabilized owing to the inception of the Global Political Agreement as the basic bread and butter issues have been resolved to the satisfaction of the masses through dollarization that killed speculative tendencies.
“What ZANU PF is calling illegal sanctions is just a publicity stunt to put pressure on the MDC to do public relations for them for their cronies to be allowed to travel to the West before their passports expire.
“The sanctions are hurting only Mugabe’s dynasty of corrupt henchmen and no sane political analyst will give in to such pretence that sanctions were caused by the MDC. Sanctions are just an incentive for good behavior and until and unless ZANU PF cronies change their conduct of business and politics, the yoke of sanctions will continue hanging over their necks,” he said.
Mutambara’s official also said that ZANU PF has no viable option and should it decide to break the GPA and opt for elections, it would kiss goodbye to the governance as it is too weak to stand any elections basing on the status quo.
“Admittedly, I am firmly stuck in the Mutambara camp but I can tell you that Morgan Tsvangirai’s MDC still commands majority support and Mugabe should not make the mistake of taking the election route now. He would be defeated all systems out. After all, he is aged, a pronouncement that his own shoal of tired followers are too scared to say,” he lampooned ZANU PF.
Arthur Mutambara runs with the hares and hunts with the hounds and many critics have crowned him a chancer who bounced into the Zimbabwe political landscape at the right time to land a high post of governance in the land.
Currently, ZANU PF is on a trailblazing campaign to convince the MDC to persuade “its” Western allies to lift the sanctions that are said to be hurting the common man on the street.
MDC has denied the allegations, arguing that for sanctions to be removed, ZANU PF should prove to the international community that it has now reformed.
ZANU PF maintains that David Milliband from the British has “said” that their government will only remove sanctions at the instructions of the MDC.
Although ZANU PF remains adamant that it has made serious concessions to the GPA, Mugabe has flatly refused to disengage the RBZ governor Gideon Gono and Attorney General Johannes Tomana who were appointed Ultra Vires the Government of National Unity (GNU).
Gono is believed to be Mugabe’s personal banker and he successfully managed to retrieve Mugabe foreign financial resources from overseas banks before they were frozen and is being rewarded as he remains in the ZANU PF chef’s armpits*