By Bernard Bwoni
The recurrent themes from the
Post-Congress administration are positive and pro-growth with the two Vice
Presidents now having been sworn in, being upfront and getting stuck into the
thick of things. VP Emmerson Mnangagwa has been talking tough about corruption
and has said that there will be real consequences for those implicated in the
degeneracy past and present follies. The Second Vice President Phelekezela
Mphoko kicked off with a very positive call and government commitment to
developing policies that support industrial growth which will go a long way in
spearheading the country’s economic recovery. It is because of the rampant
corruption and the curtailed industrial growth that the country’s economic revival
after years of decline has been limited.
There is an emerging openness,
humbleness and high level of political maturity when it comes to national
discourse. The ruling party’s post-congress attitude is an inclusive approach to
the Zimbabwe agenda and constructive dialogue on matters of national urgency.
There have been a number of disturbing reports of some officials taking it upon
themselves to act on behalf of the Vice President Mnangagwa to humiliate some
officials they accuse of having sided with former VP Dr Joyce Mujuru. It is a
state of affairs that party officials were being publicly humiliated in that
manner. The Deputy Mines Minister Fred Moyo was forcibly removed from VP
Mnangagwa’s celebration party in Zvishavane together with his brother. Again
former Indigenisation Minister Francis Nhema and Former Minister of State in
the President’s Office Flora Buka were blocked from greeting VP Mnangagwa at a
recent state function in Chirumanzu. The concerning thing is that these
ejections were carried out without the knowledge and consent of the VP himself.
The behaviour of those who were publicly humiliating others is not good public
relations at all. The VP himself has refused to be drawn into these petty
antics of political immaturity. The line has to be drawn and people have to
come to the realisation that the ruling party leadership is not for a select
few but all Zimbabweans. President Mugabe is President of all Zimbabweans
irrespective of religious, ethnic, racial or political affiliation and so are
VP Emmerson Mnangagwa and Phelekezela Mphoko.
VP Mnangagwa showed magnanimity
and humbleness expected of national leadership when he called Deputy Minister Moyo
to apologise for the unwarranted and unsanctioned public humiliation. This is
the kind of politics that national leadership should continue to embrace for
the sake of expediency and national progression. When a child speak like a
child, understand like a child, think like a child but when you grow into an
adult put away those childish ways, grow up and do things differently. You wonder
what benefit they derived from publicly shaming others. It is reassuring that
VP Mnangagwa has made clear that past and present corrupt practices will be
investigated and action will be taken. Those found guilty will be made to
account for their indiscretions. This is exactly what the Zimbabwean electorate
bargained their vote for, and this should be followed up by real action. There
has to be consequences for those implicated and there are many of them. As
Mnangagwa said “We do not have mercy on corrupt people”. Corruption is a drain
on national resources, the selfish wants of a few over the needs of the nation.
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