Mutambara a sell out

Bulawayo - Deputy Prime Minister, Professor Arthur Mutambara was on BBC's HardTalk last night where his self praise poetry like rhetoric that he continually spewed smacks of an out of sorts politician, writes Simba Nembaware.

HardTalk host, Stephen Sackur, rightly summed up Mutambara and his party's presence in the compromise government as "Alice in Wonderland" as the politician failed ostensibly to give evidence that Zimbabwe is on a recovery path; politically, economically and socially, a claim he wants the world to believe despite the evident continued abuse of human rights by Mugabe and his cronies.

Asked about Roy Bennet, Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) shadow minister of agriculture's comments alluding to the fact that Zimbabwe continues to be recklessly run by Mugabe, Mutambara said; "Bennet is not an authority on Zimbabwe, I am an authority, he can not say anything about Zimbabwe."

He also rubbished a recent statement by Nobel Peace Prize Nominee, Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai, that there is continued violation of the terms of engagement as agreed upon for the government of national unity to work coupled by human rights abuses, fresh farm invasions, unilateral appointments by Mugabe for positions on strategic parastatals and the seemingly never ending gag on media freedom.

On the economic front, Mutambara said the dolarization of the economy had stabilised the economy but the biggest challenge is the sanctions imposed by the west. He called on Britain and her allies to lift sanctions despite having earlier agreed that the sanctions referred to are specific individual sanctions that zero on Mugabe and members of his ZANU PF machinery.

"There is no reason for having sanctions on Chinamasa or Mnangagwa or anyone in ZANU PF because the unity government means we are now a team, why should there be sanctions on people in Tsvangirai's team," said Mutambara while arguing the case for his ZANU PF bed fellows.