“Remove illegal sanctions,” asserts Ms. Abigaile Mupambi

Ms. Abigaile Mupambi implored the US government to: “Remove illegal sanctions,” purportedly on behalf of her self-selected CIVIL SOCIETY PLAYERS who are not identified.

Mr. Mupasiri, Director of Public Policy of JUROL, said: “Clearly, the fact that Ms. Mupambi fails and refused to disclose her principals is must be a cause of concern for anyone who knows the link between the lack of the respect for the rule of law and sanctions.

I would be very interested to know who Ms. Mupambi alleges are civil society players because this will help in building a shared understanding of what is missing in Zimbabwe to lift it up if this creature called Zimbabwe was a living thing.

It is too easy and tempting in the search for self-gratification to import non-existent players to assert a fatally defective point.

I personally engaged Ms. Mupambi in relation to my constitutional application against President Mnangagwa and then immediately thereafter she became eloquent by her deafening silence.

I was left wondering whether the quest for a better Africa and by default a better Zimbabwe was a clarion call for us to engage as citizens in order to assert our civic duties to hold people to account for being public office bearers.

Alas, I did not know that she harbored ambitions to see a glaring problem that capture of the government institutions by Zimbabwean public office bearers poses so grave a danger to the rule of law and democracy that the sanctions imposed by people who are remotely linked to the struggles of living in a society that is not open and accountable.

It is strange that a purported civil society player would have in her vocabulary the following sentiments: “Allow Zimbabwe a level playing field ahead of 2023 elections.”

When I read this absurd assertion, my first question was who should allow a creature like Zimbabwe, a human construct, to be involved in what should happen in relation to the lives of people in the country who are affected by governance issues that result from partisanship and abuse of public power.

She speaks of a level playing field when there is nothing that speaks of a level playing field where access to public power and resources is level.

I thought naivety would have ended in November 2017 when the people’s baton was passed on without the consent of the incumbent yet the people who grabbed it had the audacity to claim that Mugabe was unseated by his own unconstitutional conduct.

The hypocrisy is what worries me. I shudder to think what a person like Adigaile thinks of me in relation to my application seeking Zimbabwe’s apex court to determine whether the President has failed to meet his oath to office by simply failing to bring the court and the people of Zimbabwe into his confidence on the role he personally played in giving birth to the reconstruction act and applying this draconian sanction on the people of Zimbabwe with impunity.

It is and has been my case, that the President who took an oath to uphold, respect, defend, and obey the constitution as the supreme law has a duty to protect the rule of law.

What Manikai, his personal lawyer stated as a fact, is still causing nightmares for me that instead of blaming sanctions, I was compelled as a self-actor to approach the apex court to give an opportunity to the President to download what he knew and what he knows about the facts and events leading to the birth and prosecution of 26 juristic entities employing more than 20,000 people resulting in extrajudicial measures being used to decimate these corporate citizens.

I told Abigale that I was less concerned about who becomes President in 2023 but to ensure that the space for constitutionalism and accountability is expanded to include subjecting the choices and actions of the President to public scrutiny.

It is clear that the propensity to conflate issues is so high to allow common sense to prevail in relation to civic matters.”