Dear Nigerians: Thank you very much
By Nomazulu Thata

Letter to the people of Nigeria,

Dear Nigerians, you are really God sent, God sent. I watched “Mugabe confronted by Sahara TV reporters” with awe and wonder, where you got the courage from to tell our President, when will there be democracy in Zimbabwe, a question we cannot ask in our own country.




You did that for us, you asked our President strong and pertinent questions: When are going to step down? When are you going to step down Mr. President? You did all that in accordance with your profession, putting the power of the camera and the voice, the message was eloquent for all of us to see and hear.

You did not want to be pushed away doing your work. His aides who do not know freedom of speech hindered you from doing your work, started speaking Shona in Nigeria! It is the arrogance of the President’s aides that tell them that the language Shona is spoken in the whole of Africa.

It was the good lady in yellow costume journalist, the lady who insisted on asking the President: “Mr. Mugabe how are you? When are you going to have elections in your country?” He answers. “Mr. President when are going to step down, is there a term limit?

“You are pushing me. You are pushing me. When will there be change in Zimbabwe, tell us Sir? Is there democracy in Zimbabwe? I don’t understand that language. We want to ask questions about Mugabe. Will there be a change, there is no democracy in Zimbabwe, there is no democracy in Zimbabwe.

“It’s about time, it’s about time Mr. President. He knows what he is doing is no good Oh. He has been in power for more than 30 something years. He cannot rule Zimbabwe for 200 hundred years! There is no democracy in Zimbabwe. He knows what he is doing is no good, Ha, ha.

“You came to witness democracy in our country. When will there be a change of power from one to the other in Zimbabwe, Sir. Why are you here Sir, if you don’t practice democracy in your own country? Invite us, invite for a new inauguration in Zimbabwe Sir. Oh, he is so old, my God! So old. Where is Jacob Zuma?

If President Mugabe was civil and human he would have crushed down physically, just for being asked such questions from young Nigerians as old as 25 years, such direct questions, embarrassing questions, young Nigerian people who were not born when he came to power.

In their lives they have seen and witnessed several changes of hands of governments in their country. He went to Nigeria to witness a democracy he is failing himself in his own yard. He crushes democracy in his own Zimbabwe.

He rigs election broad day light and travel the whole of Africa telling younger Presidents what to say to the West. On what moral ground, we ask? It would appear as if he has no morals at all to attend a democratic elected inauguration in Nigeria.

It was the Zambians who showed us that courage can change regimes, now it is the Nigerians showing absolute courage, what Zimbabweans need to have to change regime in our country. We thank you for this courage we are seeing and learning, you are just exemplary when it comes to confronting despots dear Nigerians.

Give us time dear Nigerians, we shall indeed confront the despot and its cabals and we shall overcome someday.

It was Zambian standing for us not long ago. They told Mugabe to go back home and solve his failing economy. The least the Zambian people wanted to see was a President called Mugabe that time during the elections that have not yet been concluded.

It was giving a wrong message that he came to manipulate election results, something that is running in Mugabe’s vein. Now it is you Nigerians speaking for us, it is becoming clear to us that the people of Africa do really sympathise with us and our desperate situation we find ourselves in, in Zimbabwe.

It is these African Presidents, almost half of them, who do not have the mandate to rule their own people, who pep up Mugabe to be the champion of African people. They, most of them talk anti-Western rhetoric during the day, at night they will phoning the very Western countries asking for AID that they cannot repay.

These Presidents are of the same cloth with Mugabe. They dubiously got power and would like to see Mugabe championing their repression to the people of the African continent. It is not normal at all for African Presidents to elect Mugabe, a 91 year old as Chairperson for AU nor is it normal for SADC countries to have President Mugabe as SACD Chair even if it was rotational.

That Chairpersonship should have skipped him on grounds of old age. It simply shows young generations in Africa, that something is fundamentally wrong in the systems of governments in Africa as a whole. Indeed we are let down by African Presidents and not African people.

Dear Nigerians, we Zimbabweans are not free people and you know this and it is for this reason you are asking our President to step down. He has messed up the country that has the potential to shine in Africa. We are under the same colonial yoke, albeit a black colonial master who masquerades as a democrat.

He has blood in his hands, so many people have died since 1980. He is an architect of genocide in most marginalized place of the country: Matebeleland. When he was facing defeat in year 2000 he leashed farm invasions that saw the killing of many thousands of people, black and white.

In year 2005 he made thousands homeless by crushing homes of people struggling to put bread and butter in their lives. In the elections of 2008 he killed many MDC supporters who wanted to vote him out of power. In 2013 he rigged the elections in broad day light, the SADC and AU members watched and legitimized the election as a victory for Mugabe.

Dear Nigerians, we are happy and very happy that you share our disposition. You said it loud that there should indeed be change in the government of Zimbabwe. You wish us well, you want Mugabe out so that there is some semblance of sanity in the country without the nonagenarian in power.

It is a wrong precedence we give you, young generation that a man as old as 91 can still command political and economic authority in a fast global economic development he has no clue whatsoever what is happening in the world anymore.

You saw it yourself just how old he has become, physically very, very old and fragile. Mentally he is worse. He can say anything, any vomit can come out of his mouth. Minority citizens are carelessly told how uneducated they are to go to South Africa to do manual work, but forgets that he triggered the exodus himself, with his economic failings.

Dear Nigerians, we have given up so much that we even think a coup is fine for us to change regime in our country. Much as you have given a fine example of democracy in your country, we are stuck so to speak with this old man. There are all signs that he wants his wife to take over the Presidency if he dies.

He will never leave office, he wants to die in office. Can you then blame us if we tell you we wish a coup to happen so that we have some semblance of change and we hope different? This is how desperate for change we are right now. We have been reduced ever to think violence is the answer to our problems.

In your uttermost prayerful moments please continue to pray for us, who knows it may be that some divine intervention is now the solution. It is for this reason that we think you are just God sent to assist us in our effort to remove Mugabe from power.

I thank you for your powerful voices. Please never underestimate what you have demonstrated, it was just marvellous. We need more countries to tell our President to quit power and we can start clearing the mess of over 35 years of misrule!

Your fellow African Citizen

Nomazulu Thata

Nehandaradio

http://nehandaradio.com/2015/06/02/dear-nigerians-thank-you-very-much/
http://world.einnews.com/article__detail/268620983?lcode=i8wTKxxSTAoKVOyJJHCcEkvltLO-HUmJ6bepIyA1RHM%3D

Thrash!

Eyah!. The opposition in Zim need to unite against Mugabe and unseat him.

He rigs election broad day light and travel the whole of Africa telling younger Presidents what to say to the West.
On what moral ground, we ask? It would appear as if he
has no morals at all to attend a democratic elected
inauguration in Nigeria.

This is the most annoying part. Mugabe STEP DOWN FOR DEMOCRACY! STEP DOWN FOR DEMOCRACY!

dustydee:
Eyah!. The opposition in Zim need to unite against Mugabe and unseat him.

Which unite? Zimbabwe doesn't have an opposition, their voices are usually silenced so it is obvious Mugabe would keep winning every election till death if this continues.

Mugabe kindly give democracy a chance

Idrismusty97:
Which unite? Zimbabwe doesn't have an opposition, their voices are usually silenced so it is obvious Mugabe would keep winning every election till death if this continues.

Surely they can learn from Nigeria. If the opposition in Nigeria hadn't come together, the PDP would have remained in power.

Idrismusty97:
Which unite? Zimbabwe doesn't have an opposition, their voices are usually silenced so it is obvious Mugabe would keep winning every election till death if this continues.

then dey need people like asari to fight for them on pages of newspaper

but wait . . . Is Democracy the only way to good selfless governance and development?

If yes . . . It's not so in Nigeria

A mixed bag of opinions, really...

Asika chino fly chino mhara weduwe, he looked so vulnerable, why do this to yourself, its embrassing even to your children seeing this. all respect gone just a title of president without honour, chimbogarai kumba, what next kwauchaenda ngoma ndiyo ndiyo.akomana asi chii mudhara nyara mhanhi!!
PHD grace - 2 June 2015

The headline shoud be "Journalism Reaches a New Low". The behavior of those journalists was pathetic at best, worse off, coming from Nigerian journalists, living in a country that hosts Boko Haram, and has been under military rule since time immemorial. I do not see how the daily news celebrate such uncouth, disrespectful behavior to a sitting head of state and leader of the African Union. The last time I checked, even the Nigerian president voted for president RGM to be the African Union chair, therefore acknowledging their trust in him despite his age. I do not subscribe to any political party, but I do not celebrate foolishness either. Pathetic.

Gatsi Rusere - 2 June 2015

enough is enough Mugabe must go.
Welford Ako Adjei - 2 June 2015

This is the way journalist must work . The questions were so simply and straight forward and only a half dead person can fail to answer them . Any leader knows when he or she will stepdown unless he is a life president .As of this idiot who was saying mira mira in Nigeria thinking that the whole continent is Mashonaland is disgrace . That is what we always say that if you are in roma do what they do but this fool thought his mother tongue is international
Diibulaanyika - 2 June 2015

@Gatsi rusere, don't be myopic. Others do so just to put him in a corner. Zino irema rino sekerera nawarisingadi. Truth is there is a retirement age in any given institute. You can't let your 85 yr old dad pull an ox drawn plough while you youngsters are ther. The journalists were doing their job and they did a perfect one for that matter. not the ruben barwe's and mahosos etc. Call a sped a sped. That Mugabe is past retirement age is a fact and that he should be resting is also a fact.
pride - 2 June 2015

simple questions to you not to him he does not have a retirement date as of now may be 2023
DIVER - 2 June 2015

@Diver as i put it simply questions only half dead people can fail to answer them so if you fail to answer these questions you are also a moving grave like him , Actually you sound like his bootlicker.
Diibulaanyika - 2 June 2015

President Mugabe has said some demeaning things about Nigeria as a country and Nigerians in general. When he speaks at home he forgets that the world is a global village. The Nigerians like the Kalanga's , the Jamaicans and any other peoples have their own pride. Why would he think he could go to such countries and not be heckled in retaliation. I say retaliation because Zimbabwe as a country is full of corrupt people and Zanu pf as a Government by their own admission are full of corrupt people. He deserves every bit of heckling and if it is too hot he should get out of the kitchen.
Doctor Do little - 2 June 2015

^^^Putting the two-footed tackle in

There is nothing to celebrate about this idiot who thinks she stands for democracy and yet right in her back yard young girls are being abducted and raped by her her brothers in the name of democracy. Some of her kith and kin have flocked to this part of Africa to spoil our clean cities. Nigeria is full of human feces in the streets, no wonder why her mental faculties are twisted and sees good as evil and evil as good. Typical of the puppets working for this daily.
reason - 2 June 2015

It was difficult to respond to such questions as they were about future political planning and change. In politics the complex nature of change means that predicting events is impossible, and is quite likely to be dangerous, as it implies inflexibility and a need to become locked into one specific prophecy...... Of much great value is the ability to recognise dots on the horizon, the signs of change that inevitably affect every organization and to understand their significance and how the organization should adapt
Dhidhi Muhondo - 2 June 2015

democracy is silly in a state such as a facist. in zimambabwe there is not a square metre where one can claim to be democratic or to have democracy prevailing. bob cannot respond to any question that have the word democracy in it because both the term & subject of democracy skipped him the entire time he has studied his numerous degrees & the time he has ruled. Excuse the man as he has grown a bit old to even understand that he has gone past his prime. the real problem are the saprophytes surrounding him. so we need to get rid of the saprophytes and their host but its not going to be an easy road. zvinotoda chimwe chindunduma izvi warume.
Samanyika Chaiye - 2 June 2015

If you can ask the same question to Khama , Zuma , or Obama you get the answer simply and without nda nda nda bcoz they have a clear program and time frame as to when their terms expire and they know once you get a job what is left is to be out of it . But idiots like NKurunzinza and Mugabe do not know that at all .
Diibulaanyika - 2 June 2015

sekuru ava imhata,, yerume,,how many times does he turn 91 years??
Mberengwa - 2 June 2015

^^^Bare jokes!

Mugabe is a Hilter of our generation guys he has single handedly buried our future ,success ,prosperity and every hope of a better life .According to my own knowledge and understanding there is not even one minister who was fired from Mugabe`s government maybe due to maladministration ,corruption or gross management under Mugabe they are all assumed to be doing an excellent job starting from the permanent secretary in the minister`s office up to the minister .So one wonders are these guys super effective and efficeint .In South Africa last the Education minister was dismissed for being reactive after failing to be proactive to the to an occuring problem .So l strongly believe that Joseph Made the lands n Agriculture minister for Mugabe in 2001 was supposed after he failed to be proactive to the drought situation and he even lied to nation that we had enough in our reserves to cater for every soul..mmmm food for thought ..
Chinotimba - 2 June 2015

Source: http://www.dailynews.co.zw/articles/2015/06/02/mugabe-roasted-in-nigeria

Ok

LOL some comments from Zimbabweans, Nobody should come and tell us how Mugabe is a hero that took land from whites and gave to blacks blahblah, His own people don't like him too.

This is the way journalist must work . The questions
were so simply and straight forward and only a half dead person can fail to answer them . Any leader knows when he or she will stepdown unless he is a life president .As of this idiot who was saying mira mira in Nigeria thinking that the whole continent is Mashonaland is disgrace . That is what we always say that if you are in roma do what they do but this fool thought his mother tongue is international
-Diibulaanyika

More comments here; http://www.dailynews.co.zw/articles/2015/06/02/mugabe-roasted-in-nigeria?comments=true

Useless man

the day Zimbabwe go explode eeh! their own civil war fit no end in 30yrs!

make god help them sha!

Okay, thank you for thanking Sahara Reporters for their reportage, if that similar incident had played out in your country, they will be crushed by Mugabe

we understand and share in ur pains my africa brother, I can Tell u that many Don't value the freedom we have here, u should know there was a Time too when we Nigerians were not free to express ourselves until Mr Jonathan our immediate president sign the freedom of information act into law. now u can ask and say about anything without fear. the freedom we have here is priceless. I believe u guys Will get to our stage someday.

Eeyaaa

Nigerians love Mugabe. So the supposed courage you saw and heard against him on Nigerian soil was that of a shameless foreign company operating in Nigeria.

xmileeasy:
Okay, thank you for thanking Sahara Reporters for their reportage, if that similar incident had played out in your country, they will be crushed by Mugabe

true

hahaha. Naija always setting the pace

Propaganda.......

Zimbabwe's version of Apc

Propaganda.......

Zimbabwe's version of Apc

Idrismusty97:
This is the most annoying part. Mugabe STEP DOWN FOR DEMOCRACY! STEP DOWN FOR DEMOCRACY!

Will U park well

dustydee:
Eyah!. The opposition in Zim need to unite against Mugabe and unseat him.

bros you sure say those people get strong opposition? Strong African Nations like Nigeria should sponsor an opposition party to unseat him.

The day Bob Mugabe finally dies in Zimbabwe, I hope the country will not descend into fits of violence or even civil war. The question of who rules right after his demise is going to tear the country apart. There are very few African countries that remain peaceful after the demise of its "long term" dictators.

Mugabe and his likes are probably the reason why the West refer to black africans as monkeys. To remove this derogatory nomenclature, it is time we start to address and challenge our problems with courage, vigour and determination to get results. When it comes to fighting for positive change, nigerians are very timid and would prefer to grumble and suffer to death. No wonder the holy book says that right from the days of john the baptist, the kingdom of heaven had suffered violence and it is only the bold and the violent that taketh it by force. No good things come easy but nigerians love easy life without wanting to fight believing most times that only God can change their situation through prayers.

And what exactly has the democracy we have gotten us?... I agree Mugabe has overstayed his time, he should do the honorable thing and pass on the mantle

OREMUSSANCTUS:
Thrash!

Did you just say 'thrash'?? You really are a disgrace to humanity, ur friends and most disappointingly, your family!

You call the actions of trying to end dictatorship in this times trash. I would be ashamed of the functionality of the organ in my head if I were you. It's easy to deduce that the reason Gej failed woefully in d elections was because he had wee-brained individuals like you forming majority of his support-base.

Oponu

Keep calm Zim... Big brother Nigeria has this under control as usual.
We will always be there... For you..

The ever sleeping mugabe