Comments on: Life President Mugabe! http://aderinola.wordpress.com/2008/06/29/life-president-mugabe/ For the Voiceless and Resilient People called Nigerians Fri, 27 Nov 2009 20:23:24 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 By: Tolu Abimbola http://aderinola.wordpress.com/2008/06/29/life-president-mugabe/#comment-3584 Tolu Abimbola Wed, 08 Apr 2009 02:52:20 +0000 http://aderinola.wordpress.com/?p=320#comment-3584 Nigerian nurses, employed at a hospital in Barbados, walked off their jobs Tuesday, reports Caribbean Net. The nurses, who work at Queen Elizabeth Hospital, were reacting to a news report by the Caribbean Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) that aired Monday night. According to the report, three Nigerian nurses died of AIDS while working at the hospital. The nurses are requesting that the National Union of Public Workers take care of the issue. In addition, the Nigeria Nurses Association is demanding the CBC retract the report, saying it hurt the nurses’ reputation as professionals. The CBC isn’t budgin, though. “We stand by what we carried. We stand by the veracity of our report,” Richard Cox, CBC’s director of news, told a local paper. Nigerian nurses, employed at a hospital in Barbados, walked off their jobs Tuesday, reports Caribbean Net. The nurses, who work at Queen Elizabeth Hospital, were reacting to a news report by the Caribbean Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) that aired Monday night. According to the report, three Nigerian nurses died of AIDS while working at the hospital. The nurses are requesting that the National Union of Public Workers take care of the issue. In addition, the Nigeria Nurses Association is demanding the CBC retract the report, saying it hurt the nurses’ reputation as professionals. The CBC isn’t budgin, though. “We stand by what we carried. We stand by the veracity of our report,” Richard Cox, CBC’s director of news, told a local paper.

]]> By: Benin http://aderinola.wordpress.com/2008/06/29/life-president-mugabe/#comment-3219 Benin Mon, 30 Jun 2008 01:00:47 +0000 http://aderinola.wordpress.com/?p=320#comment-3219 Nice one, Adeola Aderounmu. This is my first visit to your blog. But I am very appreciative of you telling it like it is in Zimbabwe. What I would like to add is that it will likely get worse in Zim before it gets better. Here's why: *Although Mugabe is a very old dictator, he is no fool. He knows how to skirt the line of the Geneva conventions and of the UN accords to the extent that military intervention there is not an option. In order for the UN forces or AU forces to do anything there genocide, ethnic cleansing, and/or war crimes must be clearly evidenced. This is not the case in Zim. *Mugabe has the support of Mbeki and this will not likely change even after the S.Africa elections because: --1. S. Africa leases their electricity from Zimbabwe and if not for that they would be in dire straights with their massive energy shortages. --2. S. Africa is one of the only countries that is selling anything to Zim, right now. --3. A distant third is the fact that Mbeki feels a moral indebtedness to Mugabe because of the liberation struggle that you documented from 20 + years ago. * The SADC (Southern Africa Development Community) is like a neworn baby or a toddler in comparison to ECOWAS. Thus, the SADC does not have a military apparatus like ECOWAS's ECOMOG, with which to dispense help to the Zimbabweans. So it is grim there. Plus, in the event that something did happen to Bob, the military looks like they would step in to become more oppresive than he ever could have been. For those reasons I don't see many sunny days ahead for Zimbabwe anytime soon. But it is always good to hope! Nice one, Adeola Aderounmu. This is my first visit to your blog.

But I am very appreciative of you telling it like it is in Zimbabwe.

What I would like to add is that it will likely get worse in Zim before it gets better. Here’s why:

*Although Mugabe is a very old dictator, he is no fool. He knows how to skirt the line of the Geneva conventions and of the UN accords to the extent that military intervention there is not an option. In order for the UN forces or AU forces to do anything there genocide, ethnic cleansing, and/or war crimes must be clearly evidenced. This is not the case in Zim.

*Mugabe has the support of Mbeki and this will not likely change even after the S.Africa elections because:
–1. S. Africa leases their electricity from Zimbabwe and if not for that they would be in dire straights with their massive energy shortages.
–2. S. Africa is one of the only countries that is selling anything to Zim, right now.
–3. A distant third is the fact that Mbeki feels a moral indebtedness to Mugabe because of the liberation struggle that you documented from 20 + years ago.

* The SADC (Southern Africa Development Community) is like a neworn baby or a toddler in comparison to ECOWAS. Thus, the SADC does not have a military apparatus like ECOWAS’s ECOMOG, with which to dispense help to the Zimbabweans.

So it is grim there. Plus, in the event that something did happen to Bob, the military looks like they would step in to become more oppresive than he ever could have been. For those reasons I don’t see many sunny days ahead for Zimbabwe anytime soon. But it is always good to hope!

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