Chin’ono’s mission impossible
Hosia Mviringi
“Nembe, atakwire Mukaranga, akoromoka awa, atakwire Mukaranga.”
Lyrics plucked from a beautiful yet sorrowful song by a departed icon of Zimbabwean music, Dr Oliver Mtukudzi.
The extract from the beautiful melody, “Akoromoka awa” is a mournful expression of hopelessness and exasperation in reference to a futile attempt at life by a number of youthful artists who perished in their prime age, never to see the top of their careers.
For those who did not know, Mukaranga is an extremely slippery, tall African indigenous tree which only the skilful can surmount.
Most head boys and girls tumble to the ground at first attempt while very few make it to the very first branch of this adventure tree.
It is the story of one Hopewell Chin’ono who apparently has seen an opportunity to make a dollar from relentlessly bashing and demonising his native country Zimbabwe at every single opportunity on international fora.
Behold, Hopewell Chin’ono strikes as a foolish head boy who embarks on a slippery sojourn to demonise and bash his country on international podiums with the ultimate goal being to see the failure and fall of the government.
His latest foray at the Geneva Summit for Human Rights and Democracy presented another opportunity for the opportunistic journalist cum hopeless opposition activist to flaunt his knee deep stupidity.
Fellow international delegates watched in awe as he bashed his country left, right and centre.
Not only was his presentation nauseatingly hollow and flawed, it betrayed a desperate personality devoid of anything new to parrot to the paymasters as he had exhausted all manner of palpable lies disguised as facts to the gullible legion.
Chin’ono, knowing fully well that he had no facts to present before the supposed respectable UN organ, had spent a whole week tweeting, Facebooking and regurgitating the same stinking hogwash, which he would then present before a captive audience which of course had choreographed his presentation for predetermined outcomes.
Chin’ono is on a US Embassy paid campaign to drown the loud SADC voice against US unilateral coercive economic sanctions and replace it by loud claims of corruption.
Evidence is awash to prove that Chin’ono was commissioned by the United States Embassy in Harare to run a sustained program to entrench the corruption narrative to counter widespread accusations against the barbaric US sanctions against Zimbabwe.
Mission impossible!
Achakoromoka, achawa (he shall slip, stumble, and fall), just like many predecessors
Chin’ono, among a slew of falsehoods presented as facts, claims that Zimbabwe has not built any maternity wards since the attainment of independence in 1980, yet evidence on the ground points the other direction.
Zimbabwe boasts of 6 Central Hospitals and 8 Provincial Hospitals, all of which are adequately staffed by qualified Doctors and Nurses.
Only a fool would imagine a total of 14 major modern hospitals would be built without a provision for maternity wards, let alone paediatric sections.
Only a fool will buy the white lie that 44 District Hospitals and 62 Mission Hospitals dotted around the country could be built and operated without the provision of maternity Wards.
Of course it is public knowledge that most of these hospitals actually have functional maternity waiting homes.
That lie can only be peddled by a desperate intellectual dwarf who views the world through narrow lenses blinded by the politics of the stomach. But with the advent of the information age, the world is now wide awake and alert to the availability of credible facts.
Harare Central Hospital , now Sally Mugabe Hospital, one of the country’s biggest and oldest Health facilities, which has been a victim of Hopewell’s incessant attacks, is famed for successfully undertaking some of Africa’s ground-breaking, complex and sophisticated surgical operations such as the two time separation of conjoined twins, much to the chagrin of such naysayers as Hopewell Chin’ono!
In all honesty, the Zimbabwean health sector has had its fair share of challenges, some of which are a result of inadequate investment by relevant stakeholders, government and the private sector included as well as to some greater extent the twenty-year Western economic embargo. But to say that the sector has crumbled is an overstatement and a deviation from the truth.
The current national Covid-19 vaccination record is testimony to the tremendous effort that the government has invested towards the wellbeing of citizens. Figures don’t usually lie, yet in the eyes of pessimists anything that is not full is always half-empty.
Zimbabwe, notwithstanding the gravity of economic sanctions that have stonewalled it from international capital for more than two decades, still leads the African pack in terms of Covid-19 vaccines acquisition and rollout. Current figures show an impressive run towards the 6 million mark of citizens fully vaccinated while a total of 9.7 million doses have been administered to date.
This is not a mean feat for a country that has not accessed a single cent of international Covid-19 bailout funds from International Finance Institutions (IFIs).
In July 2020 the IMF rolled out a US$4.3 billion rescue package to the South African government as Covid-19 mitigation facility, yet against all odds, Zimbabwe still leads the pack in terms of the percentage population vaccinated so far and the effectiveness of case management and prevention.
Zimbabwe was excluded from the IMF Finance and Debt Service Relief when all other countries received fresh assistance and debt cancellation and rescheduling to withstand the Covid-19 pandemic
Yet instead of pleading with the world for support, and to applaud government for these clear milestones, a fellow citizen still finds reason to stand up with a straight face to bash and berate such a resilient health system.
Zimbabwe as a third world country, still striving to attain the requirements of modernity, has, against all odds, done amazingly better than many in its class in spite of a pressing yoke and adversity of sanctions.
It is therefore appalling for a supposedly learned person in Hopewell’s mould to attempt a comparison between Zimbabwean health and transportation systems to those of Switzerland!
Many citizens, and indeed a legion of international observers now appreciate the negative energy that drives such vindictive characters as Hopewell Chin’ono who are apparently on a futile contest to please uncle Tom at the Westgate compound who have a bone to chew against the people of Zimbabwe for having repossessed their land from their white kith.
Just a reminder to Hopewell, the nation and indeed government of Zimbabwe is sustained by it’s citizens. It can never be destroyed by desperado’s blatant lies and mischief.
Hopewell Chin’ono conveniently avoids the fact that the Zimbabwean government has managed, within a space of 13 months, as a response to the Covid-19 threat, to invest in and emerge as a net exporter of Medical Oxygen in the whole SADC region.
Verify Engineering, a company established by the Second Republic at Feruka in Mutare, which produces and supplies arguably the world’s purest Medical Oxygen, at 99,9 per cent purity, has the capacity to meet national needs from 3 days’ production.
This gives a 27 day export focused production, earning the country the coveted foreign exchange.
All these achievements are lost in the eyes of a man hell bent on demonising and badmouthing the country of his birth and heritage. Man has got no shame!
Mismanaged opposition run urban councils have exacerbated the dire health situation in urban centres by way of uncollected garbage, burst sewerage and dry water taps. These have heightened incidences of such tropical diseases as Typhoid and Cholera.
Government has concertedly sought to avert a health disaster by sinking deep water wells or boreholes in urban communities. These boreholes have brought deserved relief to residents who appreciate the effort daily as they can now access cheaper and cleaner source of portable water.
Yet Hopewell Chin’ono, being as hopeless as he has become, accuses government of being archaic and backward. He sees no good, he hears no good.
He is a typical example of a man who suffers from negative mental programming, or to be blunt, he has been brainwashed beyond redemption.
Zimbabwe’s remarkable feat is one for the history books.
In any case, how many developing third world countries can survive twenty-one years of sanctions and near isolation from the world financial system, and still thrive?
One honest person will appreciate and applaud such enterprising resilience.
If anything one can not help but see great potential in the country that is worth nurturing and promoting. But be that as it may, Hopewell has got to earn a coble and fill his table with samoosa crumbs.
Still, this time around as before, he will fail. His futile attempt at regime change will hit another brick wall.
Chati homu chareva!
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