I tell you, I don’t get any respect.
Sometimes, I wonder what this world is coming to.
Languishing in exile as a political refugee for several years, I hear that Robert Mugabe is considering hosting Muammar Gaddafi as a political refugee in Zimbabwe.
I don’t get no respect!
Mugabe and his ZANU-PF cannot give my slot to Gaddafi. That would be the cruelest of things to do to me.
Gaddafi, as a refugee in Zimbabwe, would be living a luxurious life comparable to none.
Think about me, too, please.
Mugabe might move to give Gaddafi my little barren field, allocated to me by the colonial government way back in 1970.
I am still tilling the little patch I got more than forty years ago and yet we hear about farms being invaded so as to give the people some land.
Not that I would accept stolen property but where is all the land, I wonder?
No! They can’t give Gaddafi my space because, unlike Gaddafi, I will return home.
If Gaddafi leaves Libya, he won’t ever return there again!
I am saying “No!” dear comrades, not my little patch of barren land!
I will hold on to it. At least Ian Smith gave me something, unlike Mugabe.
But there are a few things we ought to consider before Mugabe gives my parking space to Gaddafi.
First, Mugabe and his party cannot just invite a fallen dictator who, like Mugabe, is of interest to the International Criminal Court for something called “crimes against humanity”.
That useless grouping, the African Union, has apparently been scouting for a safe haven for Gaddafi and, presto, Zimbabwe came to mind.
For good measure, they also threw in Angola as a possible destination.
But Zimbabwe tops the list because it has experience in taking care of murderers.
It already is home to a murderous dictator and a genocide suspect so why not send in one more murderer into Zimbabwe?
Jean Ping and his AU are turning our country into a storage room of disgraced devils, a country where condemned men are treated as royalty; where all those who have murdered and abused millions of people are welcomed and are taken care of at our expense.
But you need not forever hold your peace.
Tsvangirai’s Movement for Democratic Change must flex a muscle here.
Tsvangirai has not yet said anything about the possibility of Gaddafi taking my slot in Zimbabwe. Maybe because it is considered speculative at the moment, but even Ping and the African Union are speculating too.
As I write, Gaddafi has bolted from his compound and is cowering in some caves somewhere with a fatwa of $1.7 million on his life. Tsvangirai should, therefore, not be surprised if he returns home from the office and finds that his home and the neighbourhood are off limits to him because Gaddafi has descended on the area.
How will the MDC, as the “ruling party”, handle a situation like this?
They can’t possibly accept Gaddafi.
Would they want to be seen as being protective of an anti democracy terrorist while they yap about democracy everyday?
How will they foil Gaddafi’s coming to stay?
But, I dare say, Gaddafi should be allowed to come and hide in Zimbabwe.
It is to our advantage; it will remind the world which terrorist to grab before getting Gaddafi.
Gaddafi is not as poor as that other rat, Mengistu Haile Mariam of Ethiopia.
Mengistu is wanted back home for murdering his people and he had the foresight to choose another murderer to hide with.?I guess Mengistu’s reasoning was that if they come to get him, they will have to take Robert Mugabe as well. So, believing that Mugabe won’t be going anywhere, Mengistu came to Zimbabwe.
Mugabe even took into our country a wanted Rwandan genocide suspect, Protais Mpiranya, said to be in hiding in Harare.
It was interesting to hear the CID in Harare appealing to the public for information about Mpiranya, a man they have protected for years, refusing to hand him over to the International Criminal Court.
Now here comes Gaddafi! I hope he doesn’t dare.
Gaddafi’s presence in Zimbabwe will foul things up for the MDC and even Jacob Zuma.
But Gaddafi’s presence in Zimbabwe would also be a blessing in disguise for the MDC because it would draw a lot of attention, not only on Gaddafi himself, but on Mugabe and Mengistu.
Imagine the three of them, Mugabe, Mengistu and Gaddafi all together in one third world city with the undead spirits of all they have murdered!
I bet the devil is smiling at Mugabe all the way from Gehenna!
The MDC would be given new ammunition to shout out to the world and say, “We told you about this man, Mugabe; look at the company he keeps!”
Meanwhile, Gaddafi’s possible seeking refuge in Zimbabwe would have serious implications on SADC and Jacob Zuma’s mediation role in Zimbabwe.
Zuma has been working hard to assist and protect Gaddafi; he supports a man whose own people don’t want him anymore.
Gaddafi gave a lot of money to Zuma’s African National Congress and it is payback time.
Because of money, ANC’s democrats turn a blind eye to Gaddafi’s atrocities and are siding with him even in the face of popular uprising by his own people.
That is prostitution!
The heart of the matter is that should Zuma manage to arrange for Gaddafi to be granted asylum in Zimbabwe, this will compromise his mediation role and spell the death of the Global Political Agreement.
Surely, Gaddafi’s presence in any country is a major issue internationally and Zuma, Mugabe and Gaddafi all know that.
Mugabe will be only too glad to host Gaddafi.
Once Gaddafi enters Zimbabwe, Zuma will owe Mugabe the biggest farvour of his short presidency.
For starters, Zuma would no longer be in a position to make demands on Mugabe so we can conclude that Gaddafi’s arrival in Zimbabwe would be the death of the Global Political Agreement.
Zuma would cease to push Mugabe around because Mugabe would also ask for something in return.
Mugabe, who is already critical of Zuma’s role in the GPA, would want Zuma to take his foot off the accelerator or to just simply leave him alone.
With Gaddafi as Mugabe’s hostage, Zuma will have a tough time protecting his milking cow and I can’t think of anything Mugabe and ZANU-PF would love more.
Meanwhile, if my Prime Minister is listening, he should never make it possible for Gaddafi to be granted asylum in Zimbabwe.
Let the trash go to the dumpster.
As for me, I want both Mugabe and Tsvangirai to know that I will not accept them allocating my slot in the nation to Gaddafi.
I better find my parking space vacant when I get home.
