Why so many police?
June 18th, 2009
Zimbabwe is a small country with thousands of police who are not protecting people. I have never before seen such a country which has got such a big number of police and soldiers!
If you walk around Zimbabwe you can find that every corner where you walk there is police and soldiers. On one day I saw quite a number of young boys heading to Mukwati Building. When I asked one of these youngsters ‘where are you going’, he said, “We are going to Mukwati to collect our salary”. He also told me he is a soldier. Now, I think that the boy I was talking to is maybe 17 to 19 years old!!?
Why is the government still employing so many army and police while the country has no money? Where are they getting the money to pay these people? Every 20 to 30 kilometres you find a roadblock … what is the use of roadblocks? The security is one sided. There is no opposition party that brings arms into the country, it is Zanu PF who brings in arms from their friend China. Pliz SADC bring election to save the poor people of Zimbabwe.
What is needed now is to rebuild the country which he had destroyed with his company Zanu PF. Every Zimbabwean I talk to we says should go for elections which must not be monitored by people from both parties. We all know there is no way Mugabe will release all the ministries which are so important to him. He makes sure he keeps his thugs with him.
The militias are now deployed in rural areas. The people believe that their mission is to intimidate old people so that when election comes they will vote for Mugabe. The attendance of people at MDC rallies is also bringing fear in Zanu PF so people think they want to re-start the violence they did during 27 June 08 run off where they killed so many people. Zanu PF have totally lost stratagy of campaigning. SADC should tell all parties to go for free and fair elections which will save the people of Zimbabwe. Elections should be monitored by SADC, AU, EU and UN so that it will be fair to everyone. No one from should be seen close the monitors.
June 18th, 2009 23:52
They are paid in what they can extort or steal, with the occasional fake FEX voucher added to maintain the thin illusion of civilization. To be a soldier is the highest aspiration of any child living in despotic tyrrany; only soldiers have their needs met, because only soldiers have the weapons and training to take what they want, wherever they find it.
June 20th, 2009 19:53
It is rather dissappointing that the newly elected SA president is not taking a much more stricter approach to the unacceptable Zim situation, the poor people are still suffering, and worst of all the MDC although trying very hard under very difficult circumstances are not achieving an acceptable outcome.
Why does it take so long for the rest of the world to act?