PRESIDENT Mugabe's term as Zimbabwe's President expired at the end of March this year.

The people of Zimbabwe rejected him at the polls. He, however, went on to say he won the poll in the fullest of knowledge that the people of Zimbabwe had rejected him.

Believe you me, it could be three months after the poll, but it has not yet sunk in him that he has to relinquish power.

He cannot believe that the people of Zimbabwe have rejected him but it's true.

The media and everybody else should stop addressing him as "President" because to do so would be insulting the people of Zimbabwe Yesterday he was in New York and today he is in Rome at the invitation of the United Nations.

The UN should be made aware that Mugabe's presence at the UN summit is repugnant to the majority of Zimbabweans and does not represent the interests of Zimbabwe, but that of Mugabe and company's personal interests.

He is not interested in the elimination of poverty as he starves his own people to death. When there is little food available (thanks to the United States and the European Union), he first feeds himself and his cronies and then those he believes are his supporters.

Those perceived to be opposition supporters are left to die, including children that he claimed to be supporting at the recent New York summit.

Let it be clear to the UN that neither Mugabe nor his so-called ministers are representing Zimbabwe at any level any longer.

All of his most trusted and vocal and bungling ministers are not elected legislators, but Mugabe's appointed cronies. They are not accountable to anybody, but themselves.

Just as an illustration, look at the land distribution. To whom is the land being distributed? Ask the poor souls who desperately needed land and were "resettled".

They will give you a good hiding for suggesting that Mugabe wanted to resettle them.

But you will get a pat on the back if you put the same question to Mugabe's ministers.

Mugabe would want the whole world to believe that he is fighting the whites in Zimbabwe, Britain and America, but in fact he is fighting innocent desperate Zimbabweans of all races.

Just ask yourself how many black Zimbabweans his supporters have killed and how many black families they have displaced.

How many black workers in the farming industry have lost their jobs? And how many black reporters and editors has he arrested?

If you can answer these questions honestly, then you know whose blood Mugabe is after.

Why he is doing all this can be answered in just one word: power. The good news is that we Zimbabweans are aware of our situation and we won't let this illegitimate government get away with it.

We won't accept this situation to go on. We do not want the same nonsense to repeat itself in all future elections whoever the leader might be.

If Mugabe thinks that he can entice the MDC leadership by offering them some ministerial posts, then he better think again for the MDC is a people-driven party that is guided by democratic principles.

Another unelected minister in the shape of Jonathan Moyo has been trying to take your unbiased newspaper out of commission.

Stand firm and keep telling it like it is. If an illegitimate government is messing up our economy let's tell them that they are imposing themselves on the citizens and they should go back and seek the people's mandate.