By Farai D Hove | Justice Minister Ziyambi Ziyambi has said that he first heard of the Zimbabwe Hospital Doctors Association president Peter Magombeyi on the Voice of America channel last week, as he claimed “announcing his own abduction.”

Magombeyi went missing two weeks ago in a suspected case of abduction (for over 5 days) in which he came out complaining of having been severely tortured.

He was released last week after over 5 days and the Voice Of America Studio 7 which has already communicated in writing that it is supporting the oppressive Mnangagwa regime, is suspected to have colluded with his abductors since they immediately obtained an unfettered exclusive albeit abusive interview with him.

The statements the VOA obtained from that interview at the ones that are now being used word for word to discredit Dr Magombeyi’s abduction complaint.

The government has to date since issued contradictory statements over Magombeyi’s plight and it had to take journalists confronting the police boss Gen Godfrey Matanga to unravel a plot by the Zimbabwe Republic Police to keep him in continued detention at the Avenues Clinic. The development saw Gen Matanga embarrassing himself by appearing as if ignorant of his own officers who were abusing him at the Avenues Clinic.

Addressing the Senate yesterday, Ziyambi said, “This boy who announced his abduction,I first heard him when he came on VOA Studio 7 announcing he’d been abducted, giving an interview. But he’d already announced.The story is now unclear; he said he’d gone to church and then also to a pub with friends.”

Meanwhile, the VOA’s presenter who abused and interrogated Dr Magombeyi is on video announcing she is now doing the job of social engineering for the oppressive regime.