Harare — A LOT of abominable things have been tolerated in the name of inclusivity, and we hope the MDC-T leadership and their partners in the West will not continue pushing their luck. There is a limit to where people with a proud history of stolid resistance to all forms of colonialism can be led down the garden path.

Many have largely turned a blind eye to the seconding of key personnel to the Prime Minister's Office, by the US embassy and its reactionary arms like the US Agency for International Development.

As if that was not enough, the US government openly admits to not only setting up but also funding parallel government structures in the PM's Office, describing the structures as its "listening post" at Munhumutapa.

It was quite shocking to hear the US State Department confess that it was not only funding a parallel constitution-making and electoral reform agenda in Zimbabwe, but was also building the structures of the political parties "after the movement of many key (Usaid) members into Government service".

The Government they were referring to is the same one we call our own. The one that we believe will complete the lap of economic independence by keeping Western marauders at bay.

Equally disturbing were revelations that the US is not only funding and staffing but is apparently driving part of the agenda of the inclusive Government.

The temptation would be to point an accusing finger at the MDC-T per se. That the MDC-T leadership alone should stop giving foreigners a foothold into our governance structures, the same way the US would not allow any other nation to set its agenda.

But then the other parties in Government are also guilty by association. Zanu-PF and the MDC are complicit in their silence over clear infiltration of our nation's highest offices by forces that have never made it a secret that they would rather turn our country into a banana republic, to do with as they please.

It comes as no surprise then that, having had parallel Government structures in place, without as much as a whimper from their partners in Government, the MDC-T leadership can announce that they are "disengaging" from Government, apparently to mind their own parallel structures.

To this end, we urge the Zanu-PF leadership to wake up from their slumber and call the MDC-T to account. It is a fact of life that a stitch in time saves nine.

By condoning the behaviour of the MDC-T and its allies, what is to stop them from setting up parallel State structures that can be deployed as a destabilising force should the agenda to effect regime change through economic warfare and infiltration fail to achieve the intended objectives?

We all know that there is no such thing as a free lunch. Will we afford the price should Shylock demand his pound of flesh in the form of everything our forebears fought for since 1896?

To this end, we call on the MDC-T to exorcise the Western ghost, listen to their constituency here that, only last week, gave the inclusive Government the thumbs-up.

Let's rekindle the spirit of the MoU that brought the inclusive Government and together march to a great future for our country.