Your Excellency firstly, I would like to congratulate you on your resounding and thunderous victory in the recent elections. I hope it demonstrates the appreciation and trust that we the majority of Zimbabwean people, place in your leadership.
However, Your Excellency, I believe there are a few issues that you need to pay attention to charting the way forward. As a country we need to avoid the mistakes of the past.
Primarily, Your Excellency, I would like to advise you against including people in government who serve no purpose apart from trying to get rich as quickly as they can.
Mr President, I am not against people getting rich. In fact I would love all Zimbabweans to be as rich as possible. However if you allow a handful of people to get rich by skimming off, whether legally or illegally, money meant to provide services for the entire country, you will be allowing the impoverishment of the rest of us the people.
People should get rich from productive endeavours which expand the national pool of wealth rather than consumptive money grabs from national coffers which diminish the services available to all of us.
In a family of twenty has a pool of twenty bags of maize. If two members grab five bags for themselves, then the rest will be left with half a bag each and will quickly go hungry. Very soon the family will be at each other's throats fighting for the little that is there.
However if those members actually works to produce five more bags each and give one bag to the pool (pay their taxes) they will be richer at the same time the family more secure with 22 bags in the granary. If eight other members can do the same then the family will have ten rich people and a bigger pool of thirty bags in the granary.
Your Excellency, I am of the opinion that some of your appointees have mostly been grabbing from the national pool rather than contributing to it. Vari kungonokora mudura renyika, pane kuti varime zvavo.
Mr President, it is my considered and adamantly held opinion, that you need to focus on providing better services to the people of Zimbabwe. This will help you safeguard your legacy. Remember your legacy lies with the way the people perceive your leadership not the way party colleagues appreciate being rewarded with positions.
I know there is always pressure from those who have been by your side for a long time to be rewarded with positions. Your Excellency, I do not envy you the task, but I beg you try and convince them that the best reward, is through serving the people of Zimbabwe better, and being rewarded with their loyalty.
Your Excellency, be cognisant that since your colleagues have better access to you, they have ample chance to influence you to pursue their interests to the detriment of those of the people. Sir, you are the only one in a position to judge how to best balance all these interests, but never allow those of the people to come at the tail-end.
Mr President, I also beg you not to reward with positions people who lack expertise and knowhow and will hinder progress. May I make the humble suggestion that you appoint people who are competent in the areas they are required to manage. Above all Your Excellency, do not shirk to swing a very big boot against those who do not perform. Chuck them out.
Your Excellency, you success in creating a better country is the success of all of us Zimbabweans. I would like extend you my best wishes, knowing that your success will by my success as well, as a proud Zimbabwean.
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