People First leader Joice Mujuru’s right hand man Didymus Mutasa alleges Robert Mugabe has been clean since independence and only became wrong when he expelled the Mujuru lot from ZANU PF.
Mutasa indicated to the weekly Standard paper there has been nothing to blame Mugabe all these years until the day he reshuffled his cabinet and politburo removing him and the rest of the Mujuru cabal.
The development is set to cast bad light on Joice Mujuru herself as she honoured Mutasa with the position of an elder in her privileged committee.
Below is an excerpt of the interview:
RC: How democratic is Zanu PF and in particular, the politburo?
DM: People are free to say what they want to say and currently I think people are now speaking openly than before.
At the time there was really nothing obviously wrong and so people tended to be quiet. That helped establish the so-called one centre of power. I think it should stop because it is undemocratic.
RC: Would you describe him [Mugabe] as an autocrat, a dictator?
DM: Not before but currently, how would you describe him?
RC: So you think he has turned into a dictator?
DM: I do not want to really judge him because he is not a member of my party.
Meanwhile on the Gukurahundi massacres subject, Mutasa said he held the view that the killings were a clash of two warring groups ZANLA and ZIPRA. “I was Speaker of Parliament in the first 10 years of independence and Gukurahundi happened at that time. I had no role even as Speaker to question or to ask for details of Gukurahundi,” he said.
He continued, “but as a citizen, I saw it happen like everyone else. It appeared as though it was a clash of the two liberation movements. We wondered how liberators could turn against each other. It was a very sad incident which should have been stopped before so many died.”