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Mnangagwa Was Just A "Ministerial Minion" During Gukurahundi, He Was Not Responsible: George Charamba

6 years agoMon, 12 Mar 2018 07:28:12 GMT
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Mnangagwa Was Just A "Ministerial Minion" During Gukurahundi, He Was Not Responsible: George Charamba

Presidential spokesperson and Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of Information, Media and Broadcasting Services George Charamba has defended President Emmerson Mnangagwa saying that he was not complicit in the Gukurahundi Massacres which killed an estimated 20 000 people in Matabeleland and Midlands in the early 1980’s. Charamba said that Mnangagwa was just a “ministerial minion” during the period in question. Mnangagwa himself has refused to apologise for his role in the killings saying that the National Peace and Reconciliation Committee is enough.

Writting in the Sunday Mail, Charamba, who was also the presidential spokesperson for former president Robert Mugabe, sought to defend Mnangagwa’s first 100 days which had seen the president savaged by critics for poor performance. Said Charamba,

Does it really make sense to load ED’s first 100 days with the cure, or expectations of it, for alleged failings of a dispensation in which he was a ministerial minion? Does the notion of delegated authority mean anything to this whole debate? Does the notion of responsibility mean anything at all in this whole debate? We argue as if the above notions don’t apply to Zimbabwe and Zimbabweans.

We scapegoat wantonly as if we have not seen the inside of a management school. Just check how the whole debate on disturbances that rocked our country soon after Independence has unfolded. You would think this country had no leader, no executive Prime Minister, no Commander-in-Chief for the duration of those disturbances.

And if minors can become majors for our convenience, then why talk about the usurpation of power this last November when in fact your arguments impliedly make ED the Principal right from Zimbabwe’s creation day?

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Please Zimbabweans, let’s make up our minds! You can’t have an argument where you crowd national goodness with so many fathers while orphaning national failings in the same breadthAnd if minions can shoulder the blame for failings of the past 37 years, why doesn’t the same logic excuse ED for the 100 days posited as failing days?

To me, the whole argument is both illogical and insincere.

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