David Coltart’s Blog – Next climate change will be blamed on sanctions!Â
24 September 2013
I see that Zanu PF now argues that sanctions are responsible for poaching in Hwange! At this rate sanctions are going to be blamed for climate change.
Give us a break – that is just ridiculous. National Parks have been starved of funds for decades. Instead of buying brand new Mercedes Benzes and luxury Toyota Landcruisers for Ministers had that money been applied to buying Landrovers for National Parks our Parks staff would be much better able to combat poachers. Instead of turning a blind eye to rampant corruption in the diamond sector had diamond receipts been applied to National Parks then they would have had the wherewithal to run the Parks properly.
Furthermore our law enforcement agencies have had other agendas for over a decade allowing criminals in our midst to run wild. Had the Police been focussed on catching crooks instead of supporting Zanu PF, poachers would have been arrested by now. Had the Attorney General’s office been focussed on prosecuting criminals instead of persecuting human rights defenders then poachers would have been behind bars by now.
Had Zanu PF not allowed rampant lawlessness to prevail in their land reform programme the hundreds of thousands of plains game in former commercial farming areas and conservancies would not have been poached out.
Instead of hiding behind the stale sanctions argument Zanu PF must now apply sufficient national resources and political will to tackling this scourge which threatens to destroy one of our principal national assets.
http://www.herald.co.zw/sanctions-untold-story-behind-the-hwange-ecological-disaster/