By Farai D Hove| The leader of Zimbabwe’s oldest liberation party, Zapu, Dumiso Dabengwa has been reportedly denied a visa to travel to the UK.

While telephone calls to the veteran war vet were fruitless last night, broadcast journalist, Ezra Sibanda said. “Dabengwa was speak on justice for Gukurahundi victims.”

Allegations were rife on social networks that the development is a result of alleged secret arrangements between the UK government and President Emmerson Mnangagwa, who has denied reports on his role in the Gukurahundi atrocities. Two years ago Dabengwa threatened to sue former Education Minister David Coltart over the reports,  following which LIVE news articles were pulled out from the state media proving for instance that he once described Ndebeles as cochroaches which should be according to him back then, annihilated, using DDT.

Sibanda continued saying Dabengwa “was invited by St Andrews University to speak at Conference on Gukurahundi. He has been here before on many occasions and it’s clear the perpetrators of genocide who are now in good books with the British since the removal of Mugabe had a hand in all this, sad.”

Efforts to get a comment from the British embassy were fruitless at the time of going to print.