By Own Correspondent| Secretary for Youth Affairs in the ZANU PF Lewis Matutu has urged deposed leader Robet Mugabe to appreciate the love and respect accorded to him by his predeccessor President Emmerson Mnangagwa.
The Zanu Pf youth leader said failure to appreciate this love and respect will make Mugabe die a bitter old man.
Said Matutu:
“Former President RGM should appreciate the respect and love that he is getting from President Mnangagwa otherwise he will die a bitter old man. ED was abused, tormented and humiliated by RG and his wife but he chose to ignore all that because of love and respect.”
Matutu’s statement comes after Mugabe blasted Mnangagwa at his 95th birthday celebrations telling him point blank to stop the army killings.
Said Mugabe according to a twitter thread posted by Jealousy Mawarire:
2) Speaking in Shona & English (code mixing) he said “Vamwe vanofunga hukuru hunoreva kuponda vanhu, handizvo!” (Some believe being a leader entails murdering people, that’s not it.
(3) “Vana vaNkomo, vaMuzenda, nevanwe vakaenda handizvo zvatakasikira masoja. Masoja haatungamirire politics.” (Mr Nkomo, Mr Muzenda and I did not create the army to kill people. The army does not lead politics)
(4) “Ko zvino tinonzwa kunemakuva nemakuva evanhu akafa vachiurawa nemasoja, vachafushunhurwa nani?” (Now we hear there are countless graves of people killed by the army, who is going to unearth or exhume those bodies?)
(5) “Zvamurikuita [zvekuuraya vanhu] izvi zvichakudzokerai, mangwana, mangwana, chaiwo”. (What you are doing [killing people] is going to catch-up with you very very soon.Just tommorrow, it would have caught up with you)
(6) “Anoda kuona mutumbi wevanhu everyday, achazoona kuti vanhu vachazoda kuona mutumbi wake iye. Ndinoti kumasoja stop killing people! “(He who is obsessed with seeing corpses everyday will soon realize that people would clamour to see his corpse 1 day. I say to soldiers stop killing people!)
(7) “I say to soldiers be followers of the people u want to lead, you are not even qualified to lead them. Take your places in recognition that u r not trained to lead but to follow the people, to protect them”
8) “Iwe uri pamusoro uri kuda kuzvirumbidza? (U who is on top, you brag?) You are not God ED (Mnangagwa). Today you are at the top, tomorrow u will be at the bottom. Zvizive izvozvo (know that). God has his own way of punishing rogues and cruel people.”
(9) “You can’t do without seeing dead bodies? Uri munhu akaita sei anopona nendufu?” (What kind of a person are you? You feed on death? )
(10) “No! no! no! to soldiers being leaders of the people? Get the soldiers to their rightful place.”
(11) “Hatimbotaura zvekunyara, zvekutya kwete.(We will not shy away or be afraid to talk, no!) Let’s be frank with each other.”
(12)”Hatingati vanhu varambe vachingorohwa musoro. (We can’t continue with pple being bashed on the head.) So I say to you, get your lessons correct. Let’s create an environ where our pple are happy, not what’s happening now.”
(13) “Vanhu ngavade masoja not vamatye” (People should love their army, they should not fear the army.)
(14) “This is not the environment we wanted to create navaMsika nanavaNkomo. Tinoda kuti vanhu vafare.” (This is not the environment we wanted to create with Mr Msika and Mr Nkomo [late VPs], we wanted people to be happy “.
(15) “Tinoda kuti vanhu vaone nyika senyika yavakarwira kwete yakarwirwa nevamwe vasiri ivo. Kwete yakarwirwsa nemasoja chete.” We want people to see the country as the one they fought for, not one that was fought for by soldiers alone)
(16) “Ndiri kukuudzai (I am telling you) straight forward. I dont care what will happen to me”
(17) “Ndoda kutenda kunyange vandirikutuka ivava, tinovatenda nokuuya kuzoterera” (I want to thank even those I am chiding, we thank them for coming to listen).
(18) “We are one pple in Zimbabwe. Tinosungirwa kubatwa nevatungamiri sevanhu vaMwari kwete sezvikara zvemusango. (Leaders are bound to treat us like God’s people, not beasts of the forest)
(19) “When we started our struggle we had principles and those principles have been abandoned.”