Africa-Press – Zimbabwe. THE most stable country in the region has said what no other southern African leader would dare to.
Botswana leader Duma Boko, who took over from Mokgweetsi Masisi last November as the sixth President of the southern African nation, has taken the lead in rebuking leaders who don’t want to leave power when the time comes.
“I will say to you today that any president of any country who wants to be president for more than 10 years, anybody who has that ambition, is instantly a failure,” Boko said while launching a housing project in Gaborone on Wednesday.
“You can’t want to do this job for more than 10 years.
“If you take the job seriously, you can’t do it for more than 10 years.”
He added: “Any agenda to extend one’s presidential term signals failure and a lack of understanding of the job’s demands and responsibilities.
“And anybody who sticks with the presidency for more than 10 years, that’s a sure fire indication that he has failed. He does not understand the job.”
In Zimbabwe, a few misguided, greedy politicians are still pushing the ED2030 madness, yet evidence abound that President Emmerson Mnangagwa and his administration have dismally failed this beautiful country.
There is no economy to talk about, the health sector is in the intensive care unit with not even painkillers in public hospitals and clinics, while most roads are in a bad state.
Mnangagwa’s administration has presided over the capture of virtually all productive sectors.
Despite that, someone wants Mnangagwa to stay on until 2030 or even beyond — to 2033.
It seems the leadership of this country has been monopolised by one or two families.
A fiefdom of some sort has been created.
Anyone who dares to challenge the status quo becomes an enemy of the State.
Law enforcement agents are unleashed on such people.
Anyone who exposes the plunder that is going on in the country risks being locked up in the country’s ill-equipped prisons.
They risk being tailed by government spooks.
They are profiled, everything they do is under the microscope.
All because someone does not want their dirty linen washed in the public arena.
When someone has failed, that is it: They have failed, and should do the most honourable thing – step down.
Mnangagwa has his pluses, talk of the rehabilitation of the Harare-Masvingo-Beitbridge Highway, although it is not yet complete.
Talk of the rehabilitation and expansion of the Robert Gabriel Mugabe International Airport, Hwange Units 7 and 8 face-lift.
Unfortunately, his achievements seem to appear like a drop in the ocean when compared with his failures.
Hence he should not let charlatans in the party tamper with the national Constitution all in an effort to extend his term for their personal gains.
There is need for leadership renewal in Zimbabwe and Mnangagwa should take the lead in ensuring that such a process flawlessly takes place.
When his time to retire comes, he must heed Boko’s counsel and pass on the baton to preserve his legacy and live peacefully thereafter. Any attempts to swim against the tide will have dire consequences. We dont wish that for our “soft as wool”, “listening” President.
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