Octagenarian President Robert Mugabe has unilaterally continued to make key politica decisions that are in flagrant violation of the spirit and letter of the power-shiring deal signed between his party and the opposition MDC led by Tsvangirai. On the 17th of December 2008, Mugabe appointed Mr Johannes Tomana to be the Attorney General of Zimbabwe, a post that was left vacant after the ouster of Gula-Ndebele who was alleged to have committed a serious breach of corruption by failing to inform the police of the where abouts of one fugitive banker. The appointment of Mr. Tomana has been met with severe criticism from different sections of the civil society who aver that Mugabe's acts admit of no other interpretation other than that he does not want to cede any power to his main rival, Mr. Morgan Tsvangirai of he MDC. And to much of the chagrin, Tomana is well known staunch supporter of the Mugabe administration since the days of Professor Jonathan Moyo, the then Minister of Information and Publicity.
The MDC avers that the appointment of Tomana is a key political decision by Mugabe to make sure that all criminal allegations against Zanu PF officials are swept under the carpet whilst opposition supporters will not access justice. It cannot be assailed that Mugabe is now surrounded by the most corrupt people the world has ever seen hence the appointment of Tomana as the new AG, and a fortiori, without consultation of the Prime Minister elect is categorically meant to give a shade to Mugabe's cronies to continue with thier corrupt tendencies without fear of prosecution. All that can be said is that this is an unfortunate aberration representing Mugabe's intransigence in honouring the power sharing deal brokered by the then President of South Africa, Thabo Mbeki.
