Ever since their inception I have been against the so called targeted sanctions against Zanu-PF officials. I have made my reasons clear why I think they are far from targeted. For example they have achieved the almost total eradication of aid to Zimbabwe except for token aid meant to maintain the façade that they are targeted.
When it was announced that the EU was reviewing them with the possibility that they would be completely removed, should therefore have been good news to me.
Then it suddenly occured to me that all of the 70+ public funds leeches that I have been complaining about ever-since the day their agreement to share seats on the gravy train was announced are going to be free to travel to Europe (including the famed Ingirendi) using money that is meant to provide services for me and other ordinary Zimbabweans.
You can be guaranteed that they will take along with them huge entourages encompassing wives, relatives (vazukuru unlimited), casual forgotten liaisons (Loreta Nyathi style), casual intimate girlfriends (Jonathan Kadzura style), instantly divorced wives and all other sorts of hangers on (leeches leeched upon leeches). Kitchen cabinets, bedroom cabinets, war cabinets and even chiverevere naye kumatanga (kraal) cabinets will all have opportunities to catch a free ride once in a while.
All that travel is going to by financed (by hook and crook if necessary) from public coffers meant to provide services to us poor Zimbabweans who have been reduced to taking each other to clinics in wheelbarrows. What does that mean to us. The cake is not growing bigger. So it obviously means less services to us.
No the EU must not lift any more travel sanctions. It must extend them to all politicians including the MDC ones in order to help us minimize the misuse of public money. And this time they better make them really targeted.
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