Correspondent|OPPOSITION party MDC president Nelson Chamisa has claimed that state security agents gave his wife’s car a high-speed chase as she was driving home last Friday.

“Some eerie figures gave high-speed chase to my wife’s car last Friday,” Chamisa said in an interview with a Daily News journalist. “They play with people’s lives; I will reveal all this on Monday when I hold a press conference.”

However, when Monday came, no mention of Chamisa’s wife’s high-speed chase was done by party spokesperson Jacob Mafume.

At the press conference, Mafume made no mention of Chamisa’s wife ever being chased. Mafume only addressed the issue of Chamisa’s alleged kidnap which he said happened on Saturday evening while his convoy was entering Harare from a Marondera rally.

Chamisa claimed there was an attempt by military intelligence agents with the help of British secret service to kidnap him in Ruwa.

“A minimum of eight armed men follow me at any point in time,” Chamisa claimed on Monday in a Twitter post.

The government disputed Chamisa’s version of events, with the Minister of Information, Media and Broadcasting Services Monica Mutsvangwa dismissing the incident as pure road rage between Chamisa’s security detail and a private citizen who was merely driving behind the opposition leader’s convoy.

“Where have you seen a witch who acknowledges their act, or a thief who acknowledges his loot?” Chamisa asked the Daily News reporter.

He said the government was in the habit of denying everything, as they did with Gukurahundi and other human rights abuses.

“What do you want them to say” Chamisa asked rhetorically. “That’s the normal statement with them. You bewitch and deny.”