Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni, who was the guest of honor during the Zimbabwe International Trade Fair (ZITF) in Bulawayo today, has said it is the fault of Africa that Zimbabwe is under sanctions because countries on the continent don’t work together closely.
Western countries imposed sanctions on Zimbabwe siting human rights abuse during Robert Mugabe’s era and have continued with then restrictions after shootings happened on Harare streets on a post election violence.
“If we were working closely and someone put under sanctions on one of us, we would also impose sanctions on him” (sic) Museveni said. “So it is the equation of balance.”
“Here we have an equation which is not balanced. Sanctions are one sided for ever and ever and ever.’
The visiting President also said that the idea of sanctions is coward.
‘So why do you have to put sanctions, if somebody is wrong leave him, he will fail by his own state,” said Museveni.
“Why do you have to put sanctions? Because they know you are right and somebody is wrong.”
“That means that the man is wrong otherwise if you are sure that he is wrong why don’t you let him,” Museveni went on.
The Ugandan leader, whose democracy is already in question, also made an apeal to those that imposed sanctions on Zimbabwe to lift the restrictive measures.
“On behalf of Uganda, I want to condemn the sanctions which have been imposed on Zimbabwe quite a long time,” Museveni said.
