Jane Mlambo| Respected academic Dr Pedzisai Ruhanya has suggested that any discussions to arrest the country’s problems should include the military which he said has been in a coalition arrangement with the ruling Zanu PF party.

Posting on Twitter this morning, Ruhanya said military partisanship was the biggest elephant in the room when it comes to addressing the political problems facing the country.

“Military has turned itself into a political party. Been in a coalition gov with ZANU PF since 1980. Any discussion to address the Zimbabwe problem must include the Military and its ZANU PF Coalition partners so that their demands. Military partisanship must be addressed,” said Ruhanya.

Ruhanya’s organisation the Zimbabwe Democracy Institute has been involved in a lot of research that laid bare the involvement of the security apparatus in the Zanu PF power equation.

The military was instrumental in toppling the late former President Robert Mugabe in November 2017 with the then Commander Constantino Chiwenga addressing a press conference where he said the military was justified in intervening in Zanu PF succession disputes.

They later replaced Mugabe with his then deputy Emmerson Mnangagwa who had to resign from the army to take up an executive position as vice President.