Fresh evidence exposes MDC’s anarchy plot

27 Jan, 2019 - 00:01 0 Views

The Sunday Mail

Tendai Murapa and Kuda Bwititi

MDC-Alliance legislator Honourable Godfrey Sithole allegedly called for the unconstitutional overthrow of President Emmerson Mnangagwa and incited his supporters to loot goods during the so-called shut down that led to loss of lives, fresh evidence has revealed.

The damning evidence confirms Government’s position that the January 14 riots were not a protest against a hike in fuel prices but a larger plot to incite anarchy and dislodge the elected Head of State.

Local private media and Western media outposts have run with the false narrative that the orgy of violence was a result of a hike in fuel prices, ignoring masses of evidence which show a chain of events of how the MDC orchestrated and executed the plot to dethrone the sitting Government in cahoots with Non-Governmental Organisations.

A video footage in possession of The Sunday Mail shows that on the first day of the riots, a fortnight ago, Mr Sithole used his Ford Ranger vehicle, registration number ADI 8921 to drive around in his Chitungwiza North constituency mobilising MDC supporters to engage in lawlessness.

In the video which The Sunday Mail got last week, Mr Sithole let the cat out of the bag as he revealed that part of the plan was to disrupt President Mnangagwa’s trip to Eurasia, cause him to return home and mobilise people to block him from getting to State House.

In a street address attended by a group of perceived MDC Alliance supporters, chants of their president, Advocate Nelson Chamisa are clearly audible and pronounced.

“Comrades we have not come here to play. This will not end until he (Mnangagwa) is out of office.

Toda kunomugachira Mnangagwa paairport. Ari kudzoka nenyaya yecrisis iyoyi. Mnangagwa toda kunomugarira paairport. Haachasvika kuState House (We are going to interrupt President Mnangagwa’s arrival at the airport. We will make sure that he comes back to the country because of this crisis. We will make sure we block him from ever setting foot at State House again.”

Mr Sithole further urged the hooligans to loot nearby shops and to help themselves to any food items they so wished.

Chinonzi kudira jecha munochiziva here? Iko zvino tavakuzodira jecha. Hapana munhu achadzokera, tavakugara mustreet ikozvino.

Tichaswera pano. Mukaita nzara kana pane ane shop yakavhura munopfuura muchitora tozobhadhara” (We are now going all-out to cause disturbances. No one is going to go home, we are going to be operating here in the streets.

‘‘If anyone is hungry, feel free to loot from any shop and we will pay for the consequences later.”

An MDC youth league member Chamunorwa Madya, who is alleged to be at some hideout in Waterfalls, Harare also addressed the gathering inciting the crowd to make the country ungovernable.

“No one is going to go home. No one who is in Chitungwiza is going to go to the city (Harare) because we must blockade all roads. Those who are in town will not come here. We have taken over the streets. We are going to descend on the airport and make sure that (President) Mnangagwa does not go to State House,” he said while chanting MDC-Alliance slogans and threatening unspecified action against Zanu PF supporters.

It has been gathered that soon after the address by the Member of Parliament, the protesters who had all along been peaceful became violent and pulled down the robot that was at the intersection.

Anarchy then reigned supreme as the robot was stoned and set on fire.

The lawlessness took a turn for the worse after two large crowds, one from Zengeza side and another from Unit L shops combined with the one at Unit C, before marching towards Makoni police station.

The combined group, The Sunday Mail is reliably informed, stormed the police station burning vehicles in the car park before partially setting alight the building. Several police officers were assaulted by the marauding hooligans while other officers ran for cover and managed to escape.

Police later confirmed that the violence in Chitungwiza left one person dead and several others injured.

Speaking to our sister paper The Herald last week, permanent secretary in the Ministry of Information, Publicity and Broadcasting Services Mr Nick Mangwana said the President had been briefed on how the demonstrations had been pre-planned by the MDC-Alliance and its allies.

“Following today’s extensive briefing to his Excellency the President, Cde Emmerson Dambudzo Mnangagwa, on the state of affairs in the country, it has become clearer more than ever before that the violent demonstrations which rocked the country last week were long pre-planned by MDC Alliance working in cahoots with its associate organisations, principally the ZCTU and political NGOs led by the Crisis in Zimbabwe Coalition and with foreign organisations and individuals who had infiltrated into the country for the purpose.

“The violent demonstrations were a direct result of this elaborate plan agreed to at a meeting held last year at Wild Geese Resort, which plan was meant to trigger and precipitate instability in the country for regime change,” he said.

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