By Langton Ncube|War Veterans chairman Christopher Mutsvangwa, said he was used by the Army to challenge the former President Robert Mugabe’s authority.

Mutsvangwa, who was one of the panelists at Ibbo Mandza’s  Southern African Political Economy Series (SAPES) political dialogue in the capital last week said he was being used by the military to challenge the former President Robert Mugabe..

“You may want to know that I never wanted to become the chairman of the War veterans and I was not keen on it, but the insistence came from KG6,” an online publication, NewZimbabwe.com quotes Mutsvangwa saying.

“Why was that so? Because there was this mad Professor who was running around dropping big words trying to look learned and trying to bamboozle everybody .So we know our personnel from the war they said Chris you must go and become the chairperson of the war veterans and of cause they know me because I went to that war when there were still few people,” he said.

He added: “I was then voted by the war veterans and even when Mugabe tried to remove me from the war veterans they refused .He may have removed me from the party using his rules, but when it came to the war veterans they refused and to me that is consensus”.

“I only did what the Army could not do because they were in uniform and the reason why I was defiant is that because I knew my friends at the KG6 that they were on the same page and I was actually saying what they would say so when the time eventually came when that thing had been exposed they moved and the story is different.

“ So I was only doing a spend work for those guys. We have an umbilical code with the Army and if I had not left Army in 1980 I could be an Army general as we speak,” said Mutsvangwa.