Chihuri "threatens" to resign

Hello all,

Well I am still connected at present and the new ISP is due in on the 6th! So hopefully any interruption will be brief!

I was doing the usual trawl through the news today and whilst most of it still stinks of Mugabe trying to hold on to all the organs of state that he has transformed into organs of the party. Funnily enough the cited reason that he cannot give up Home Affairs appears linked to the unity accord with pf - ZAPU. Erm... pf ZAPU did not, to the best of my knowledge, contest the last elections - and anyway, have been so overwhelmed by ZANU-pf that they no longer exist.

Apparently Dumiso Dabengwa and other ZAPU heavyweights are threatening to abandon the unity accord in response to the power sharing agreement... I have personally met Dabengwa on a number of occasions - I think he is a man of principals who should move away from the stinking morass created by ZANU-pf after all, Dabengwa is a very decent statesman too. Yes, bring back ZAPU if it is felt that it will represent the ndebele people - political diversity is to be encouraged - provided all parties act lawfully and work to represent their followers in the best interests of the nation - this would be a healthy development consistent with democracy. Instead of ZANU-pd being able to swallow up every corner of Zimbabwe to feed Mugabe's megalomania!

Well all these complications aside - the power sharing agreement will not work -unless power is equitably shared between the parties who are signatory to the document - all the other issues are merely a smoke screen to try and force Mugabe to stay in control and allow him to continue to destroy the country.

The fact is that Mugabe uses the organs of state and the ZRP in particular, who are deployed nationally, to rig elections, help ZANU-pf thugs attack the opposition and detain MDC leaders - if he retains control of this, the balance of power does not shift.

I see also that the MDC are under immense pressure to walk away from the power sharing deal, however, this would play into Mugabe's hands as he will be able to go tothe world and say "see - I tried, but they didn't want to play!" - No, I think the MDC must remain engaged, but stick thoroughly to their guns - and despite everything, there must be something going on behind the scenes - because there is also the story the Chihuri has threatened to resign if the MDC gain control of Home Affairs...

This is the report about Chihuri.. It can be found on the Zimbabwe Metro site here - and the comments that follow on that site show just how people feel about Chihuri!

Police Commissioner Augustine Chihuri has threatened to resign if Mugabe goes ahead and allocates the Ministry of Home Affairs to the MDC,sources have revealed.
Chihuri reportedly met President Robert Mugabe at State House in Harare early this week and told him that he cannot directly work under any MDC minister."The President was told that by Chihuri that he will step down if he handed over the home Affairs ministry. " revealed a source who attended the meeting.
Meanwhile ZANU PF 's chief negotiator Patrick Chinamasa has downplayed the deadlock over allocation of four key ministries telling state media that progress has been made."I don't think that the issue of allocation of ministries is a matter that can be referred to the facilitator . We cannot, at the slightest difference in opinion, call outsiders to mediate. Even if you are a married couple, you cannot have a situation where your wife runs to her mother each time you have a problem in your home. If there is thinking on such a kind of approach, it has to stop in the interest of harmonisation of relations," he told The Herald.
Chinamasa went on to claim that the Deputy Prime Minister designate Thokozani Khuphe has already toured her new office to be located in downtown Harare."I understand offices for Mr Tsvangirai and the two Deputy Prime Ministers have already been set aside at Munhumutapa Building and that MDC-T vice president Thokozani Khupe has already been to the building to see the offices", said Chinamasa.
Earlier MDC spokesman Nelson Chamisa told The Star newpaper that they has been no progress in the stalemate."This approach of claiming the marrow of the government while peripherising the MDC is completely unacceptable. The mistake that Zanu-PF is making is to imagine that we are desperate to be in the government. We are not in a hurry to be chauffeur-driven. We are a people-driven party.", he said


Well Comrade Field Marshal General Brigadier Commissioner - please ensure you hand your uniform in at ordinance on your way out, ensure that your office is clean and that you personally polish the desk before you go..

The sooner you and ALL the Deputy Commissioners go, the better - and yes, if it is felt that the ZANU-pf supporters throughout the police "will resign en masse", please ensure that you encourage them to do so - it will save us having to suspend them before we begin investigations!

I see that after refusing to allow the Finance Ministry to go to MDC, reports are emerging that this has been conceded - let us hope that the same will happen with Home Affairs, because without this Ministry, the agreement and power sharing government are dead in the water. I think Mugabe must be finding it exasperating that the MDC will not cave in to their demands - good for you MDC - you keep at it, you were the legally elected representative of the people of Zimbabwe, you have promised to fight their corner and you are doing an impressive job under very hard hostile conditions.

Later.