The government must not dictate everything without consulting the people. It must be inclusive and take time to engage the people whenever they want to adopt policies or pass laws.
By Leonard Koni,Our Reader
The people have spoken for a long time until their tears have run dry, but our government does not want to take heed and listen to their plight.
It is so embarrassing that people have to demonstrate against a Vice-President, who clocks more than 550 days staying in a five-star hotel at taxpayers’ expense and refuses to vacate the hotel yet thousands of civil servants are failing to access their bonuses and salaries on time. People have voiced their anger since last year that Vice-President Phelekezela Mphoko must leave the Rainbow Towers Hotel, but it has fallen on deaf ears.
We have also witnessed another blundering move by the government when it descended on cross border traders at Beitbridge Border Post and applied Statutory Instrument Number 64 of 2016. The move came as a surprise to the people because the government in the first place failed to create awareness on the people. Chaos was witnessed at the border. It is the prerogative of the government to address fundamental economic issues by engaging the people and stakeholders.
Sometime in 2014, President Robert Mugabe took a very large entourage of ministers to a United Nations meeting and some ended up missing their flight back home as they went for a shopping spree. We have allowed corruption and poor governance to take root in our country without taking any action. The people have now resorted to demonstrations.
The leaders have failed dismally to lead their people and they should be ashamed of themselves.
Most Zimbabweans are teetering on the brink of abject poverty and have lost every hope of putting decent food on their tables.
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The majority of the young people have struggled to get employment and very soon they are going to be exposed to the brunt of a harsh economic environment where the bond notes are going to be introduced in the near future. Only greedy and selfish politicians who have businesses in the country will enjoy the bond notes tenure.
This supermarket economy will not take us anywhere. We are so grateful for a job well done by our leaders and this is the right time to pass the baton to the young who still have the energy and stamina to lead the country.
I am so much indebted to the young Zimbabweans who are fighting and working tirelessly in trying to douse the burning Zimbabwe.
