Farai Maruzani started his comment very well by saying people were demanding to know why the MDC UK leadership had ‘failed to advise Tsvangirayi properly’, but instead of responding to this issue in his article he went on to blame the people for wanting things donated and not wanting to go home, or he tried to blame it on "youths wearing ‘Vigil’ attire".

But the truth is that if the MDC has got a diaspora policy, so far we diasporans do not know it, and for the Prime Minister to just come to us and say "come home" showed lack of appreciation of our problems and our issues.

We accept that there are residual forces who will soon vanish, but the question that the President was asked on Andrew Marr's programme, that its seems Mugabe has not actually let go of power continues to haunt me.

But even if these are resolved we still have a question of what is the Prime Minister asking us to come and do, in an economy with no jobs, commodities sold in US dollars which we cannot earn in Zimbabwe, and compounded by Zanu (PF) elements who we know are not under control.

Some of us have watched our uncles come back from so-called Wenera (South Africa) with nothing but a radio, a leather jacket and some sun glasses. We had to take care of them and they died paupers .

People who are here have learned this and want to go back with something. So far most of them have not been working in their professions, but in the euphemistic dot.com sector (care) and through this taking care of families at home while also building homes and trying to send children to school.

While we accept that the Prime Minister, in his correction said: I did not say pack your bags today,  we still did not hear whether his government has a plan for us.

In fact he was quoted again saying the diaspora is not a permanent feature. This is not true. Many African countries now have permanent diaspora features. We have children going to school here in diaspora and need to pay their fees until they finish. So we might become a temporary permanent feature, unless we can get jobs in Zimbabwe which can allow us to continue paying their fees.

Government has to understand that many of us want to come home. Even with the minimum wage we are earning here, we might be able to make some small savings to buy some capital equipment and be able to start some manufacturing in Zimbabwe.

If the government can put some programmes together with donors so that we can get top-ups for our projects, then I might consider coming home, knowing that I have a starting point.

There is nothing wrong with donors. As you said yourself, you are now the man that you are because of donours, so why knock them?

You are talking about the same kind of independence that Mugabe talks about; independent but with nothing to eat or develop. That is rubbish independence.

The young lady whom you mentioned looking after five people was not asking what the Government is going to give her, but what she wanted to know if she could get a job back home to enable her to continue taking care of the five people she was taking of, and herself as well.

Zimbabwe is a non-runner state, and needs us, but we cannot go and work just to develop the country, no matter how patriotic we are.

You said we have a warped thinking that someone must do the work and we must go there to enjoy. Someone must sort the sewerage pipes in Chitungwiza before I set my foot there, you said. That is not the case. We want to develop our country, but we have to get something out of it, otherwise we do not go.

It is not all of us who are asylum seekers and who can be sent home when the British decide to send us. Some of us have papers, but we still want to come home. We thought the Prime Minister's comments, that if we decide to stay here when things are "fine" at home, the British Government will push us out, were ill-advised.

It is as if the Prime Minister is planning to tell the British government to kick so-called asylum seekers out, which is a very unfortunate impression.

If the Prime Minister's message was that let's build the country together, as you say, then he should capitalise on the positive donour feeling towards Zimbabwe and create programmes to enable us to go home in a dignified manner.

We want to be there for the next free and fair election, so please Mr Maruzani pass the message to the PM that we need his government's support.