There is a law that is missing in the Constitution of Zimbabwe and that law governs whether or not it is an offense for police officers to urinate in public.
This is not a laughing matter.
Responding to a question in the Parliament of Zimbabwe, Obedingwa Mguni, the Home Affairs Deputy Minister, said his ministry would only ‘enforce the law against police urinating in public’ after the law has been availed to them.
“Therefore, if urinating behind the tree is now illegal, the police will
be informed by the Environment Minister,” said Mguni. “So, if there is an Act that is being provided by the ministry heading the environment, saying no one should urinate behind a tree, police will enforce that one.”
This issue came up because police officers are being observed embarrassingly urinating behind bushes or trees at roadblocks.
With the mound of problems we have in Zimbabwe, this has to be an issue for parliamentary debate at this particular time when both the economic and political situation has deteriorated to such a level that we have a 90% unemployment rate.
Our people are now being physically abused and violence is on the increase because elections are approaching.
France, one of the most developed countries in the world, just elected a 39-year old president while we in Zimbabwe put forth a 93-year-old to run in our presidential elections next year.
As our failures deepen, our priorities go haywire: to fix this leak, we must steady that dam wall but to steady that dam wall, we have to fix this leak first! Damn!
The human race is believed to be endowed with greater analytical and reasoning minds than any other creatures on earth.
We, the people, think while all other living creatures survive and outwit us through instinct.
Considering the way we have swallowed this nonsense, it is no wonder that crocodiles continue to swallow us while all other creatures kill us as evidenced by the number of lives already lost to “wild animals”, let alone to mosquitoes and fleas, this year alone.
It will not benefit anyone if we win elections without an agenda stacked with priorities.
The proposed unity of Zimbabwe’s political parties to unite against Mugabe as one political entity is long overdue.
Kenya did it once and succeeded and now they are doing it again while Zimbabwean opposition parties hold meetings and meetings for years on end.
Even when political parties agree to join a union against Mugabe, their leaders go out and make reckless statements that negatively impact on the proposed coalition, as recently evidenced by Tendai Biti, who cherishes being identified more as Mugabe’s “Former Finance Minister” than as leader of his own People’s Democratic Party and by Samuel Sipepa Nkomo, deputy to former president Joyce Mujuru in her National People’s Party.
Then, there are our so-called War Veterans, who never really led but who survive through being led and being bouncers on behalf of Mugabe. They suddenly find themselves exposed as their patron gets weaker and weaker.
It is a scary moment for them because instead of blaming Mugabe and their own Zanu-Pf leadership for ignoring them, they prostitute themselves to anyone who might end up being the country’s leader.
But, to be honest and fair, our ‘war veterans’ were given monetary compensation that was more than they deserved and they continue coming for more.
It was their payout, along with Mugabe’s thievery, that destroyed the economy of the country from which we never recovered.
These ‘war veterans’ were never on the side of the people that they abused during the war of liberation; they continue to abuse the people to this day.
It is rather upsetting that Zimbabwean children cannot point to the “founding father of Zimbabwe” with pride and cannot associate with the so-called “war veterans” because of the selfish way they have handled themselves and the country.
Mugabe, with the violent help of the ‘war veterans’, robbed us and our children of a glorious point in history.
Now, here they come again wanting to pick a leader for the nation yet they fail to lead even themselves.
Zimbabweans must be left free to choose their own leader without threats from these failed old men who have nothing to offer the nation after being offered more than they deserved.
I want to talk about progress and unselfish intention; I want to talk about the proposed unity of opposition political parties.
I want to draw attention to what the opposition parties can do if they put their minds to it.
In 2002, Kenyans vanquished Jomo Kenyatta’s Kenya African National Union, which had been in power for 39 years (since 1963).
They did that through what they named the National Alliance of Rainbow Coalition ÔÇô a conglomerate of many political parties that banded together against the tide and dislodged the dictatorial power.
Although problems and differences did come out later, it was a situation that offered all sides to be heard.
Now Kenya is doing it again ÔÇô this time to dislodge the son of Kenya’s first president.
Zimbabwe’s opposition leaders must take the state of the country seriously and arrive at selfless conclusions to save the nation.
They must stop silly bickering, back-biting and petty jealousies and join hands to remove this boil on the face of our country.
Without any doubt, Morgan Tsvangirai’s MDC is the largest opposition party in the country but Tsvangirai’s stalling when it comes to political parties that have real and substantial national appeal is evident.
Is there a reason he chases Welshman Ncube more than he chases Joyce Mujuru or any other political party whose membership is evidently much larger than Ncube’s?
If locusts have no king, yet advance together in ranks, why can’t we, the people, do the same?
We can no longer afford the glorification of one individual; our battle now needs less of a particular leader but a dedication of individuals to do that which is right to salvage the life of our country and our nation.
I pray that the proposed unity among opposition political parties grows and gets stronger and is accepted with the genuine intent to free our country from tyranny and to give the country back to the people.
The primary goal is to reclaim the country back from this selfish, murderous tyrant.
Yes, locusts have no king, but they progress in formation to get what they need for the survival of the swam ÔÇô not for the individual.
Perhaps a little lesson from insects for our political leaders to cast away selfish, personal goals and, instead, work for the emancipation of the nation.
As for the police officers and their public displays, we will talk later.
