Goodday Mr President:Rashweat Mukundu Dear President ED Mnangagwa, Your Excellency, I hope I find you well. The political script playing out in Zimbabwe is quite familiar not only to me, but many other citizens now fed up with the never ending economic and political crises. Zimbabwe marked a milestone 40 years since the removal of the colonial yoke, but you and I will agree that nearly half if not more of those years have been lost to political and economic crises with little if any focus on national development. You said so in one of your trips to China as Vice-President that Zimbabwe had lost nearly 20 years in which much could have been achieved. Upon your return from the short exile in November to December 2017, you spoke greatly at the Zanu PF HQ about your vision. Do you still have those notes your Excellency so that they can remind you of what you set out to do? Amid some hope in 2017, I saw a man relieved of the burden of living outside Zimbabwe at such an advanced age, and a man haunted by the events of the past few weeks. This fear that you had your Excellency is what the ordinary citizen has experienced for much of the time under Zanu PF and unfortunately worsening under your current leadership. The 2017 speech brought out the best in your humanity which unfortunately has been eroded by events from 2018 to date, most notable being the 2018 and 2019 shooting of civilians which your acting party spokesperson Patrick Chinamasa wore as a badge of honour, a few weeks back, threatening more of the same should citizens dare to challenge your government on the streets. The 2018 and 2019 shootings which your government brushed off, the many abductions that have taken place over the years which your bureaucrats blame on the opposition and so-called third force have all the hallmarks of a man who has a short memory, hounded by Mugabe, only to return and pick from where Mugabe left. Have you reflected on the events of the past few months in which your government had political rivals abducted, and tortured including an MP Joanah Mamombe, councillors and hundreds of young people are in prison for exercising their right to protest. Have you reflected on what is the end game of all this tension and whether your vision of a middle income country can be achieved under such chaos? In reflecting on these issues, your Excellency, what image comes into your mind more-so how different is your government from that of the late former President Robert Mugabe? Let us go back to history a bit and look at the animosity between Mugabe and the late MDC leader Morgan Tsvangirai and how the whole Zanu PF and State machinery resisted the opposition with numerous opposition people being killed, critical newspapers bombed and journalists arrested and others exiled, the violence that preceded every election from 2000 to 2008 and finally the ruling party conceding to a new Constitution, a government of national unity and some relative but short-lived peace and prosperity up to 2013. Can you imagine your Excellency how life would be in Zimbabwe