By Blessing Simpson Madzima

The Persecution of ordinary citizens through fraudulent and systematic dictatorship must be challenged and stopped now if we are to be able to stop tyranny in Zimbabwe.

The arbitrary rule to send Joana to maximum prison for a mental health assessment and the removal of elected members of Parliament and replacing them with enablers of dictatorship is a signal of the regime to ban elections and ensure ED becomes a life President.

ED lost 2018 Presidential election which was disputed and the military forced him on people through a fraudulent and unpopular Con-Court appointment.

He has shown no concern for the ordinary citizens he got killed after that disputed election in August 2018 and after he announced an unjust fuel increase in January 2019.

He has no record to prove his competence and legitimacy to continue running on as our President. He has no plans to salvage the economy which he has wrecked by his authoritarian leadership and by continuously trying to smash all those he perceive as enemies by arbitrary using draconian legislation and repressive amendments to our constitution.

He has gone on a rampage of persecuting citizens through fraudulent, shameful and corrupt propaganda system by making life harder, dangerous and more expensive for those who support opposition and those he think might vote against his regime and Presidency.

He has abused the Covid 19 lockdown system to kill more citizens in areas he perceive most people will not vote him and support his stay as President.

Vendors and informal traders were the hardest hit and those in urban areas who have always advocated for change.

He has launched a crusade of bogus suits and amendments by creating an opposition party and take away the rights of citizens to choose their own leaders, legislators and councillors in pursuit of a one party state and a life Presidency.

ED is determined and hoping that by wrecking all our accountability processes to his rule through crushing genuine and credible opposition politics, our freedoms and our democratic space, he can easily eradicate the need for democratic elections if we let him get away with it.

ED has become our greatest concern and a ruthless and shameless threat to our society and our freedoms. He has shamelessly come open that he is a dictator.

We should not let him get away with all this genocide, human rights violations and the suffering of our people through his incompetence, corruption and brutality.

We must vehemently reject tyranny and stand up to ED and all our enemies, domestic and foreign, who seek to take away our precious freedom to choose our leaders and exercise all our other rights.

Our circumstance now demand us to organise ourselves, civic society, community leaders, teachers, trade and labour unions and all progressive activists to ensure our history, constitution, our civil liberties and our right to vote remain our precious ideals and freedoms of our society in choosing those who govern us.

The evidence and greatest signal of people’s suffering we are experiencing in his conduct and behaviour is our guarantor and greatest excuse for our right to rebel against tyranny.

One of the fundamental concept that can help our nation is the concept that we must all be conscious of the fact that tyrants are little more than beasts. It is not only our right, but obligation to ensure we stop the tyrant before it turns around and kill all of us and destroy all our freedoms.

Dictatorship can only be ended by brave enlightened resistance and internal collapse where most citizens refuse to accommodate it and instead help to bring about its collapse.

The reality of our circumstances is that ED is not decimating MDC A only but is closing all our democratic space, that is the reason the recall of parliamentarians was activated to ensure parliament is rendered inefficient in its oversight over the Executive, ED.

If you are a citizen below fifty years you have a right to stop ED now before he destroys all of you.