RESPONSE TO AMBASSADOR CAIN MATHEMA –
By Elizabeth Marunda
1.0 Introduction
I do not blame you for saying what you said because you know where your bread is buttered.
What shall set this country free is the truth. Practising the truth should start from the top by first admitting that they say and do.
2.0 Unbecoming Statements
1. I rigged elections and very few African leaders will blame me because we all do the same.
2 I was at the war front but never trained as a soldier nor went to school/college, but was assisting on the ground; Now I am a war veteran and without me this country would be nowhere.
3. After independence all I did was register with a college, attended a few lectures and then being whom I had become on the social ladder, I received a certificate, yet I sit in so many boards. In fact most of us on those boards do not have the relevant expert knowledge in those areas, but who cares. after all we earn allowances. Those crying about shortage of water and electricity should go back to the rural areas. We are the bosses and are in charge, After all during the war, we used to have one or zero meals a day.
3. I cannot stand these questioning youngsters with their education, because when I was young I could never ask my father why he married a second wife, when then it was me as the first child expected to fend for my siblings and mother.
4. I as a man when my wife is not well, and cannot accord me my conjugal rights, I will enter an agreement with her that I have extra marital affair(s) But woe to anyone who knows and talks about those affairs both myself and wife will ensure that the person speaking about this so called exploitation of rural girls sees red. If those complaining are working in my industry, being a chef, my wife and I will make sure that person is jobless and suffers to the grave.. After all, What is wrong if we use these desperate rural girls? Their elder siblings, parents should just shut up and leave us alone.
3.0 Evidence
With all due respect Sir, it is common knowledge that In 1- some people are prepared to come and testify that they participated in the election rigging. Even if they are not prepared to do so, the kind of suffering we are experiencing is evidence enough that elections were rigged as no one could have supported endless suffering.
In 2, some people are prepared to testify that they neither fought nor studied but are parading themselves as war veterans of repute. Even if no one is prepared to testify, the fact that the educated are jobless, and some have left the country simply shows that these war veterans in leadership positions were not part of those in the thick of things during the war, strategizing on how to proceed with the war and ensuring that in preparing for the future, cadres who qualified for further studies go and study and become the professionals who contribute in running the country
In3, Even if no-one can prove that some people attended very few classes and received certificates,the level of reading witnessed, the monetary policy being implemented, the way corrupt individuals are awarded is the manifestation of absence of the expressed knowledge
In 4 Even if no abused girl will come forward because they are afraid for their lives, the parents and older siblings who struggled to pay their fees will bear testimony to this because they go on being victimized for having opposed the idea of their little girl children/sister being made mistresses.
Sir what has kept this country depended on false information is because there has been one platform ZBC(television and radio) for people of the same mindset ( who are dishonest, stop at nothing proceeding to even create false identities even in death, adore corruption and regard indulgence in multiple partners as heroic.
Before you get angry and want to abduct poor me, sit down Sir and ask yourself where the lie is here?) If anything what is making you angry is the fact that people are able to share information on the God given platforms, and like the father who has been asked why he is taking on a second wife, third wife when he cannot feed the first family, you see red and want to close the platforms!
Please Sir stand up and smell the coffee, Zimbabwe has all the natural resources any country could yearn for. Look at Singapore, its turning salt water into drinking water, and it takes research conducted by primary school children like making vertical car doors to the factory, their youths are participating on so many progressive platforms.
4.0 What do we do with our youths?
We deny them a truly two pathway education system because money has to pay chartered planes costing millions
Our youths are dejected, spend days working manually in mining among other activities that do not give meaningful hope to their lives.
Our girls, in their childhood are duped into becoming a second, third fourth .. wife and mothers who are then dejected and will need a lot of support to pick themselves up and run their lives.
Do you know who is lying? The few people who believe that this country earned its independence through their only effort and that they have a right to siphon all the riches to other lands, killing and maiming any local who in fact is entitled to the resources for trying to partake of these resources!
5.0 Conclusion
We are all certain that if the abduction were fake, then with your diligent investigators, this shall be discovered, and this lying will be exposed and Zimbabwe should be able to move forward.
Sir I rest my case.
I thank you, Tatenda, Siyabonga
E,R, M, (PhD; MBA; M Ed; B Ed Hons; Dip H Ed, several diplomas and certificates- it is not what one knows sir, but whom one knows.!