Hosia Mviringi
As the Shona adage goes, "Rine manyanga hariputirwe," (one's true colours can not be concealed forever), this time it was one Tendai Biti's turn to confess and lay bare his sinister political persuasions.
Daring the police to arrest him again, apparently without any provocation, Biti began to parade his invisible power, those powerful friends of his who will be sure to intervene if he got arrested 'again'.
Tendai Biti is a Zimbabwean opposition politician who is not new to controversy. If anything at all, his political career thrives on such antics which would in the process get him at cross hairs with the law, earning him undeserved sympathy in the process.
"My friend you can rest me again, but I can assure you that this time I am loaded. There are big powers behind my back only waiting for you to arrest me. Don't start on what you can not finish," said Tendai Biti while daring an observant police officer.
Dear reader, Zimbabwe has entered yet another season of provocations. The new party is only new in name and colour. The traits remain the same as the personalities behind. Their behaviour betray a deplorable lack of depth in strategy.
Biti is on record of employing the same tactics whenever major international events are on the horizon in order to influence major US decisions especially regarding sanctions on Zimbabwe.
As has become the norm, every second week of February, the United States Senate Committee on Foreign Relations sits to review the Zimbabwe Sanctions regime under ZDERA. As such Biti's outbursts may not be something out of the ordinary. If anything, it has been long expected.
"Now arrest me again and see what you will get. We have friends, powerful friends behind us. I got powerful friends behind me who will not stand akimbo ass you arrest me. I am well respected and protected in very powerful offices somewhere".
Mr. Tendai Biti let the cat out of the bag when he indicated that he was ready to be arrested 'again’ so that his powerful protection friends would spring into action.
He was in the mood to prove a point in an environment where no threats to arrest him were made.
He was literally begging the police to arrest him so that he can let his dogs out. Pathetic indeed.
Of course the desperation can be understood, especially with the newly formed party struggling for relevance and funding.
Any arrests of Mr. Biti, will most likely, in his imaginations, trigger a groundswell of sympathy and serve to unlock the funding floodgates. It is common knowledge that the CCC movement is broke to the born, having struggled to raise money to buy a car through crowdfunding.
It is thus to be expected that desperation for donor money will drive the formation to extremes so as to justify any new funding in the guise of promoting democracy. Sad story indeed.
Regrettably, the former MDC family which now re christened to the CCC, is famed for framing and faking state abuse and harassment, to the point of faking abductions and disappearances of associated activists, all this to influence US foreign policy intervention against Zimbabwe.
It is sad that Mr. Tendai Biti has thrived to this day at the back of the suffering of fellow Zimbabweans on the back of US economic sanctions.
He is nicknamed ZDERA due to the central role that he played in the drafting and lobbying for the adoption of the ZDERA Sanctions Bill in the US Senate.
Besides all the adverse effects of the sanctions on ordinary Zimbabweans. But I still takes pride in puppetry, a craft that has earned him unimaginable wealth in a sea of sanctions induced poverty.
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