SO, after all, the plan is actually to sentence the Owner to a prison extension of five years for his grievous crime of being too good as to be the only blessing there can ever be to this country?
Being the gentleman that he has always been, Muckraker has to admit that he missed this one. It is really a Trabablas strategy and Muck only saw half of it until the full picture was unveiled this week.
When the time had been ripened by the visit to Precabe Farm by the members of the CCC Lacoste faction, where they confirmed their availability support for the whole injustice!
“If the people themselves recognise and affirm the value of your leadership prowess, Your Excellency, remaining in your role as the country’s President for the greater good of our nation, then so be it,” the self-styled owner of the Zanu PF creature, Cde Sengezo Tshabangu dutifully declared.
So, as it is, in theory Zimbos are going to be stuck with Owner for the next eight good years unless they rescue him through the referendums that are included in this strategy and refuse to agree to the cruelty of extending the prison term of an 82-year old by another five years upon its expiry in 2028.
Trabablas strategy, it is called . . . and it looks like it is working perfectly well — for now — not knowing if everything will remain according to the original plan and continue working well for him.
Being a constitutionalist that he claims to be, his minions are faithfully following everything in the script. After the noises within Zanu PF had been effectively silenced, then the supposed opposition — fresh from graduating at the Chitepo School of (Dictatorial) Ideology — came in to do its part . . . to confirm what all Zimbos have known.
So, the strategy was quickly shifted into the next gear . . . proposals — demands in fact — for vandalisation of the Constitution to legalise the extension of the presidential (jail) term limit by another five years!
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Just like in the coup, which was sanitised by the use of innocent-sounding phrases like “military-assisted transition”, the idea here is to — at all costs — avoid the dirty phrase “third term” even when in effect it is exactly what it would be.
All things being equal, this is how Owner is going to be forced to remain our slave, locked away at State House, “for the good of the nation”.
This only serves to confirm the wisdom that many have always chosen to ignore . . . that once a thief, always a thief . . . rarely do people stage coups in order to voluntarily hand over power!
Constitutional coup
So far so good . . . but the tricky part of it all is the pesky referendum requirement . . . the brains behind this strategy know for sure that the products they are trying to sell have no takers in the market, hence this strategy of resorting to foisting it via the back door.
So, whether it is a straight election or referendum, just that troublesome name – Dambudzo — has no takers . . . that is the most dangerously risky part of the strategy.
Muck is very sure that after testing the waters — the mood, which is not promising to be useful — there could be another plan of just committing the illegality in a perfectly illegal way by simply doing it in Parliament.
There are already too many illegalities that Zimbos are living with . . . including an illegal chief justice and army chief among many others, so an illegal president might not be one too many!
With an illegal chief justice and an illegal army commander, an illegal president will only come handy to complete the circle in the support group of illegals . . . allowing perfect symbiosis for the mutual benefit.
Muck is seeing this vandalisation of the Constitution being concluded through Parly than through referendums because the mood out there is never conducive for that risk — that embarrassment — even if the referendums are to be rushed through this year.
The socio-economic situation is not getting any favourable, not to mention the obvious “Bhora Musango” mischief by miffed party insiders. This would be disastrous.
And also to be dealt with in the same stride is that silly clause that says the incumbent cannot benefit from a constitutional amendment . . . where on earth has an illegality even been carried out in a legal way?
But it being a Trabablas strategy that it is, Zimbos will never hear Owner’s voice until the final outcome is known . . . if it succeeds he will turn up to make a show of being a hapless victim of a conspiracy of circumstances and, therefore, resigning himself to fate — therefore, continuing to slave as Owner of the country!
If the strategy is successfully stymied – as it should be — he will still appear to give an exaggerated sire of relief, reminding Zimbos that being the constitutionalist that he has always been, thankfully the illegality, which he would claim he never agreed with from the start, has been thwarted.
He would be quick to remind us of his threat of ever being in a hurry to retire to his Precabe Farm for real productive work. So, either way, he would still be able to appear to be a constitutionalist that he claims to be. That is Trabablas – Skokripiko – for you!
Munhumutapa Day
After putting out a calendar that includes Owner’s birthday as a public holiday — Munhumutapa Day — to test the mood out there, the goons have since been making a show of denying it, with even The Herald pulling down the story from its website.
But the reality is that we are now just waiting for the gazetting of September 15 as a holiday and that would be it. This is the cost of having an unhappy slave running (down) your affairs.
He will do it to the best of his ability. When it all ends, the extent of the destruction will be worse than that of the California inferno . . . that is when Zimbos realise the grave mistake they made by celebrating the November 2017 coup!
Otherwise it is the notorious “Harare man” Cde Jealousy Mawarire — not Muck — who is already calling for the removal of Owner from power “by any means!”
Just sell the damn thing!
As for the ever-patriotic Muck, he has a brilliant idea. We seem to be having a rich affinity for referendums. United States president-elect Donald Trump is trying to force-buy Greenland for his country’s supposed strategic considerations.
How about a referendum in the State of Trabablas on the acceptability of putting this sorry apology for a country on sale? The results of the referendum — an overwhelming “YES!” — would not surprise anyone . . . and we get done with this needless headache of pretending to be a country when we are just a walking scam!
