Many a President Robert Mugabe loyalists have ceaselessly tripped on each other to endorse him and only him alone (the likes of Vice-President Phelekezela Mphoko, Grace Mugabe, some sections of the police and some clerics) the chosen one of God to rule Zimbabwe until Amen regardless of whether he is doing the country any justice or is misruling and throwing the beautiful God-given country to the dogs.
By Thonsie,Our Reader
That the President was chosen by God we may not dispute, neither do we subscribe to the notion, as we cannot tell from what authority his sympathisers draw the idea. But we dare those who follow Mugabe without questioning his integrity, even if he leads them and everyone else into the wilderness, to peruse the scriptures and discover that even in the Bible there are kings that God allowed to assume reigns, but were free to choose to do or not to do God’s will which nowadays can be likened to oppression of the masses and peddling of corrupt tendencies (dictatorship) by the same leaders.
We have such examples in the mould of King Saul and Manasseh of Israel, even the great Babylon king, Nebucchadnezar, who acknowledged God only after affliction. At least Manasseh showed remorse and repented while in Babylon the land of his affliction pending his restoration, but for Mugabe, like his arrogant African counterparts, who were not spared the wrath of the citizenry, I doubt if he will ever recompense even if taken to the land of affliction in the form of the Hague, as he clings to power at all costs, while his reign plunges the majority into abject poverty.
I, therefore, challenge Mugabe’s praise singers to read 2 Kings 21:1-2 and see how King Manasseh did evil before the Lord and even shed innocent blood as shown in verse 16 despite him being anointed by God to his throne. It follows then that being sent by God to rule over one’s people does not necessarily mean good stewardship or custodianship of the State and all other responsibilities bestowed therein. Man is free to choose to be upright or crooked before the Lord and the people. Thus, it becomes naive for anyone to claim that if Mugabe was put by God in his stead, then the country must humbly and quietly follow him to slaughter as humble sheep without a murmur. That is absurd. Otherwise the crooked leaders, who do not listen to the voice of reason are soon cut off when their evil has manifested.
King Manasseh’s repentance is found in 2 Chronicles 33:12-13. But before that, the King is said to even have caused the children of Judah to sin.
Have we not shed innocent blood in the run up to elections, during the land grabs of the infamous land reform programme, the Gukurahundi atrocities, State-sponsored forced disappearances and other blood-letting misdemeanours?
Thy sins shall surely catch up with thee one of these fine days. May be its high time the innocent blood shed in this land since independence was appeased. Only God knows when, but this might as well be the time because Zimbabweans have suffered enough in the hands of Mugabe and his generals.
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However, my clarion call is for those shameless individuals, who blatantly endorse despotism and bad governance by today’s dictators claiming that God has a hand in the oppression of his people by raising dictators to power. God forbid, for He puts man to rule his people by His statutes to demonstrate the rule and power of His love, but if any leader departs from that that cannot be attributed to God’s will.
Down with despots for those who do not gather with God scatter with the devil. Botswana President Ian Khama on Mugabe put it well, no doubt about that. God can use anyone for His messenger.
Mugabe must borrow a leaf from King Manasseh’s autobiography and quit while God is extending him the palm olive of peace. If the police ban on opposition parties’ peaceful demonstrations is anything to go by in terms of the regime’s arrogance, Mugabe and his generals should know that the people of Zimbabwe need equal rights and justice not just empty peace. What is peace without freedoms? What is peace without justice? It is nothing but fiefdoms.
