Ray Nkosi |Former President Robert Mugabe has relived the coup experience which ousted him from power last November.

Mugabe who is now opening up and speaking more and more to the media, told the Local weekily The Independent that his intelligence team were being intimidated well before the coup, he also says that he is not a member of the newly formed National Patriotic Front.

“I went for a graduation (ceremony) and the boys (intelligence) came and surrounded me and said we (the Central Intelligence Organisation) are being beaten up. I said ah all is well, I’ve gone to the university and I haven’t seen anything. All the cars had been removed from the road and it was absolutely quiet. That’s when the boys (CIO) told me, that everything was being taken away from them. And that they had been beaten up.”

Asked about what he thought when General Chiwenga made a statement, Mugabe says, “I thought at least Chiwenga would have informed me that they (the military) were having such and such a problem. Yes, to inform me what dissatisfaction they had. And at that point I said, well, we’re prepared to discuss.”