Former ZANU PF politburo member Saviour Kasukuwere has heaped praise on the late former President Robert Mugabe while casting aspersions on his successor President Emmerson Mnangagwa.
Kasukuwere released a statement through his #tysonwabantu movement on the commemoration of the National Youth Day in which he characterised Zimbabwe’s current leaders as “the real narcissistic criminals”. He said:
The real criminals have turned your (Mugabe) vision into a horror of an impoverished nation at the mercy of cartels that have corrupted the centre and kill off our hopes.
There were never any ‘criminals around your Presidency’, were they? We realise now that they removed you because you kept their baser appetites at bay.
You were the incorruptible barrier against the real narcissistic criminals and their cartels that have now captured Zimbabwe.
It dawns upon us now that they removed you only so that their hardened criminal handlers could come close enough to capture the entire State’s value chain, from the ruling Party and its Politburo into government, cabinet, state institutions and agents paid off with cars and privatised salaries to allow and be complicit in the rape of our nation.
When the military launched a coup in November 2017, it claimed to have been targeting “criminals” (a euphemism for the ZANU PF G40 faction) who had allegedly surrounded Mugabe.
Several former cabinet ministers fled the country fearing persecution by the new regime.