By A Correspondent| The ZANU PF leader Emmerson Mnangagwa has put security forces on high alert in the capital, Harare.

There is an ongoing stop and search on all trucks going into Harare on all roads, ZimEye reveals.

Whispers were all over alleging that he “fears” a coup; and a stop and search operation is countrywide at the moment.

Most roads into the CBD are being manned by armed police at least 2 police officers with ak47 rifles and no motorist can run away because they already look like they can open fire.

Is the machete phenomenon a genuine concern to the ZANU PF government? Top politicians aligned to the ZANU PF leader reveal with evidence that the machete chaos was started by Mnangagwa himself and he is on video in the last few months threatening to use machetes on citizens as a form of punishment. He is also on video amid the machete phenomenon, telling party members on the 14th Dec 2019 that this year, all evidence implicating him for state violence must be “nipped in the bud ” before it reaches the United Nations. Analysts say he will this year use a cover for violence to deal with political opponents.

While efforts to get a comment from the Joint Operations Command were fruitless at the time of writing, a latest JOC report says the security forces are targeting the opposition MDC party. While the United Nations has fingered Mnangagwa’s administration for the 1 August 2018, and the January 2019 violence, the man has continued to state the opposite.

Earlier on the Norton legislator Temba Mliswa warned marauding machete wielding gangs that have caused massive terror through murder, rape, robbery and other forms of anarchy in parts of the country’s mining areas could work against President Emmerson Mnangagwa and his Zanu-PF’s ambitions to remain the country’s governing authority.

He was speaking at the Information for Development (IDT) panel discussion forum at Sapes Trust in Harare on: “The Machete Militia: Origins, Responses and Implications.”

Mliswa said the gangs have morphed into a strong, rogue unit which enjoyed tacit army backing.

“These criminals are now working with law enforcement agents but the truth of the matter which you can take is that these guys will take them (Mnangagwa and Zanu-PF) out of power, remember this day,” said Mliswa.

“They have gone too far, they (senior Zanu-PF politicians) feel that they are helping them but they are doing more harm to the people of Zimbabwe.

“The people of Zimbabwe have a tendency to keep quiet, they have the patience to keep quiet for five years, when they vote and that is when they speak.”

Mliswa also questioned the government’s sincerity in dealing with the menace and implicated senior officials in Zanu-PF, army and police for bankrolling the terror gangs.

“He whoever controls gold, controls politics; the military is involved, the police is involved. Operation Restore Legacy happened and after that happened have we gone back to the institutions we were working with or we now have a situation where we have one institution in charge and that institution is the military at the end of the day?

“The police itself is weak because (Operation) Restore Legacy exposed the police, Central Intelligence Organisation (CIO). We say that you are weak. We (Zimbabwe Defence Forces) are the people that have brought this new dispensation (and) as a result, we are in control’.

He said it was time that senior politicians including ministers and the State security agents became honest.

“It is about time we are honest, but if the army then becomes so involved in people being killed, in situations where the law enforcement agents who arrest like the police cannot do their job then we need to ask, who is control?”

A police operation to flush out the Mashurugwi has netted hundreds of suspected members.

However, allegations continue swirling that senior Zanu-PF politicians, army generals and the police are protecting the armed gangs.

The MDC has also pointed fingers at Mnangagwa, Minister of State Security Owen Ncube, Minister of Justice Ziyambi Ziyambi and Local Government Minister July Moyo and Zanu-PF MP Dexter Nduna as being behind the terror groups.

“I have listened to our colleagues in Zanu-PF at a high level, nobody; none of them has condemned the crisis we have in the country of organised, commanded, initiated from the top violence, which is challenging to the security of persons,” Chamisa said last month.

“If we don’t stand up together as a people to defend ourselves, we will go the Rwanda way. We have soft genocide taking place,” he said referring to the 1994 Rwandan genocide in which over 800 00 people were massacred. – Byo24/Additional Reporting

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