By Leonard Koni| President Emmerson Mnangagwa got into power promising to change the political trend and landscape in Zimbabwe through implementing good policies, promised to listen to the people and to respect human rights.
Unfortunately his government is still using excessive force on unarmed citizens and continue to abuse power and human rights.
People expected a new republic different from the old one a “new and unfolding democracy,” but today serious abuses, sodomising and weaponisation of the law continue with impunity.
Zanu PF government has systematically subverted history and the will of the people to protect authoritarian interests in the late Mugabe era and this new dispensation is carrying over where Mugabe left.
Misplaced priorities, lack of policy implementationFollowing a social media outcry about erecting a Mbuya Nehanda statue in the country , the government abondoned the idea but late rescucitated it.
They took the statue to South Africa for galvanising at a cost of more than two million Rand exclusive transport costs to Zimbabwe. The appetite for idol worshipping continues unabated.
Meanwhile more hospitals in the country do not have enough medicines and theatres. Our nurses and doctors are poorly remunerated. The health care system is in dire straits and needs a great investment.
What have we done or gone wrong as a nation to deserve this?
The catastrophe we have in Zimbabwe’s government is that those with power have no ideas and those without power have ideas.
We still celebrate on mediocrity projects like commissioning a borehole and skip bins whilst other countries are developing elephant projects.
Yes we all celebrated when he forcibly tool power from Robert Mugabe but by was it wrong to allow him to take over the reigns of power? I think it was very wrong for people to allow the military to decide who should lead the country.
Is the Mbuya Nehanda statue going to unlock the economic fortunes of the country?
It was an unfortunate incident where Zimbabweans blindly replaced a dictator with another dictator. A leopard cannot change its spots.
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