Mugabe and hypocrisy of the West

You don’t need to consult a diviner to know that Robert Mugabe, former guerrilla fighter turned prime minister, and then president of Zimbabwe is a bungler and bunglers bungle everything that is good. Look to the economy which is in despondency and you will see a man who has failed at everything.
Many people see him as an African hero; I do not. Isn’t this the same Mugabe who couldn’t work with Joshua Nkomo only because Nkomo’s ethnic background (Ndebele tribe) was enough grounds for suspicion from the get-go? And yet same leader could not work with Emmerson Mnangagwa his Vice President both of whom are from Zimbabwe’s majority Shona ethnic group.
How come the West began to moralize on the constitutionality of not toppling Mugabe? How surprising! Isn’t it possible that the West encouraged the coup from behind the scenes?
Cases abound of the complicity of western countries in the affairs of many countries. Did Mohammed Morsi not win a democratic elections in Egypt but was toppled by Egyptian army chief General Abdel Fattah el-Sisi who suspended the constitution and is today the president of Egypt? Did the West bat an eyelid? Were western leaders comfortable with Mohammed Morsi?
Don’t take the West seriously on Robert Mugabe for he is their bête noire. I wish African leaders can solve African problems but when will that time come?, , , ,

Simon Abah,
Abuja

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