33 Years!
In 2013, that would
make the number of years that Robert Mugabe has spent in office, as the de facto Head of State in Zimbabwe,
should he be "elected" again in the ongoing election in the country.
The questions goes on end…Why should this be possible in an office that is
supposed to be an elective one? Is he really the "only messiah" with
divine mandate to rule over Zimbabwe? How truly democratic is this country
presently conducting a sham of an election vilified by the whole world?
Robert Mugabe,89 , saucy
and rude, is a maverick statesman with an unhealthy tenacity for power in
Zimbabwe- a country with a long history of degradation, economic retrogression,
cultural despondency, national
dependency and human rights abuse. If the world will only ask this old
man to state the merits on which he is campaigning to continue in
office-whether the people want or not, I'm sure he will only stutter for lack
of what to say; for the evidence of his long rule is there to see in Zimbabwe,
rated lowest on the world economic list with inflation rate never before seen in modern times; a
country in a perfect state of anomie.
Will the youths of Zimbabwe just sit and watch as their
future is mortgaged even before they get there? The answer lies in whether the
country possesses the critical mass with dream for emancipation, who will take
a stand through politics to wrest their country from continued imposed
oligarchy on their political mandate.
Perhaps, fate would lend a hand and make
a martyr of this oldest living African President at this decisive year of his
rule, the 33rd year, when the fate of the world was once sealed with the death
of Jesus Christ at 33 years old. If you believe as I do, say amen!
Aluta continua,
Wale Owoeye
PS: By the way, lovers of poetry can download my new book
titled THIRTY-THREE TREES about the
way to the Divine through Nature. It was written for Bimbola, who lost her life
three years ago in trying to have her first child. May her gentle soul continue
to rest in peace.
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