Respected academic and human rights advocate, Dr Phillan Zamchya, has weighed in on the cries by the MDC Alliance leadership, that there was an assassination attempt on Advocate Nelson Chamisa, earlier today in Marondera. Below is his own account.

Dr Phillan Zamchya| Reader, after the 2018 general election, I interviewed a war veteran and senior security guy at a restaurant in Zimbabwe. He told me that ‘if Chamisa does not come to the table a bullet only costs 32 cents…there has never been political assassination in this country. This will be the first…it will not be coordinated it will just be one rogue element thinking the country can not be put to ransom by one young man who did not go to war…’ He sounded so agitated, then aggressive and later behaved like someone in a frenzy. I was now sensing danger for little me. Fortunately, one senior lawyer walked in, calmed the situation and took me away. The good lawyer warned me not to interview unstable people like that. Thought of this when I heard some bullets were fired at Nelson Chamisa and the people in Marondera today. Barbaric and cowardly act.