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Mugabe attack on Biti irrational
Movement
for Democratic Change
November
05, 2012
Mugabe's
statement attacking Hon Biti over government's failure to
provide money for agricultural inputs is not just astounding but
certainly unacceptable and a cheap publicity stunt by a man who
has failed this nation for over three decades of misrule.
Mugabe's
false accusations that Hon Biti is sabotaging government's
work plan by failing to adequately finance vital sectors such as
agriculture, is not only incongruous but highly irrational and characteristic
of the selective amnesia that has beset the entire Zanu PF leadership.
Mugabe's theatrics are akin to a father who claims ownership
and jurisdiction over his homestead yet refuses to accept responsibility
over the family's welfare. That Mugabe launches a parallel
and partisan input scheme at the party's headquarters at the
same time Hon Biti was announcing that he had availed money for
the same inputs from treasury in a statement at the Victoria Falls
budget seminar over the weekend, smacks of double standards, hypocrisy
and vain arrogance by the old and tired Mugabe.
This action
confirms our assertion that Zanu PF is using money from the Chiadzwa
Diamond fields siphoned through a corruption magnate Obert Mpofu
to sponsor a parallel government structure aimed at distorting and
confusing government business especially that which is managed under
MDC run ministries.
Mpofu, a Zanu
PF link pin in the whole Chiadzwa Diamond corruption syndicate,
has over the years refused to declare proceeds from the mine fields
to the treasury opting instead to line his pockets and fund a Zanu
Pf parallel government. How can Mpofu explain remitting 41million
out of $400 million that was realised from the fields this year?
That the so-called
Presidential input scheme was launched at the Zanu PF headquarters
raises an eyebrow, and the generality of Zimbabweans wonder if this
is not another vote buying exercise by Zanu PF. It therefore ceases
to be a 'presidential' input scheme as it is designed
to benefit Zanu PF members.
The continued harassment and abuse of Hon Biti is unacceptable and
should not be tolerated by all Zimbabweans of good standing. The
MDC continues to advocate and champion for an accountable and transparent
system of government for the benefit of all Zimbabweans.
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