By Dorrothy Moyo| The British-visa-denied POLAD member, Linda Masarira has accused the United States embassy for bribing her with USD 2 million so she could travel to European countries to demonise Emmerson Mnangagwa’s party, ZANU PF.
Her allegations are contained in a leaked audio message whose transcript is supplied courtesy of ZimEye.com below.
Masarira begins by saying:
Leader Chanda. Thank you for your input and I want to respond to you in regards to your input. You should also understand that I have been a regular visitor to the American embassy and there are a lot of things that I know which a lot of Zimbabweans do not know.
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And after realisation that I cannot sell Zimbabwe’s sovereignty for my own luxuries I decided to do the right thing. Remember in 2016 I was imprisoned for insulting the office of the President of Zimbabwe Robert Mugabe and I was arrested once again after the march in Mufakose which I was not involved in.
When I was released eight, nine days later, the people paying my bills were the Americans. I had several meetings and interviews with them, they wanted to give me 2 million they wanted to get me to America, give me a green card, and take me on tours to European countries so that I demonize my country but I am not that person. I am not that person I love my country more than anything else. I could have gone anywhere I wanted, in 2016 after I came out of prison but I chose to serve my country. I am not mad. We cannot survive on the mercy of America or Europe or Britain, we are Zimbabweans first before we have something else. We all have a duty and a responsibility to protect our sovereignty, and that is what is lacking in Zimbabwe. Zimbabwe thinks that America or Europe or UK is going to save us. No. No one is going to save us.
The solutions to the crisis at hand we have in Zimbabwe lies within zimbabweans lies with us understanding who we are as a people. Live with us understanding that we are zimbabweans we are Africans and that we have got vast mineral resources that we should exploit to the benefit of the people of Zimbabwe. But as long as we think that white imperialists are our saviours we are not bringing any justice to ourselves. I don’t subscribe to that ideology. We need to redefine who we are as a people and the chart and chart the way how we are going to do that. LEAD as a political party is not going to beg for funds to operate from America, UK, EU or whatever, we are going to use our subscriptions we’re going to use the business unit to make our own money.
We have to decide on the course of action that we are going to do and as much as I am appreciative of your concerns we will never be a colony of any western imperialist or eastern imperialist.