Accra, Sept 6, GNA —
The Convention People’s Party (CPP) has paid its respect to the late former
President of Zimbabwe, Robert Mugabe, describing him as a revolutionary icon
and a foremost fighter for national liberation.
In a press statement
issued and signed by Mr Kofi Henaku Akuffo, Chairman, International Relations
and Diplomacy Committee of the Party and copied the Ghana News Agency, the CPP
said the late Mugabe was an indomitable freedom fighter, who led his people to
resist the whites’ supremacy and brought independence to the then Rhodesia.
It said Mugabe
indicated his credentials as a Pan Africanist by first coming to work as a
teacher in the new independent Ghana and associated with the CPP and the Africa
Affairs Bureau of the Ghana Government.
The late Mugabe
translated independence to ensure social and economic justice for his people
through land reforms, the statement said.
He embarked on a
land reform, which led to the imposition of economic sanctions, a political and
diplomatic blockade.
The statement noted
that despite all this the late President did not relent on his efforts towards
ensuring that other countries were liberated.
“Despite all this
Comrade Mugabe a consistent revolutionary and Pan Africanist helped in the
fight and defeat of apartheid in South Africa, fought for African causes,
elevated access to education and health to the highest levels in Zimbabwe.
“Comrade Mugabe was
a consistent revolutionary, a Pan Africanist par excellence and amongst the
giants and icons of the national liberation movements.
“He lived, worked
and died for his people and for freedom for the oppressed in the world,” the
statement noted.
GNA