Own Correspondent

Tapiwa Mashakada continues to shock the world with his barrage of accusations against the MDC Alliance which he voluntarily left to join the Thokozani Khupe led MDC-T as formulated by the Supreme Court.

In his latest move, Mashakada has been cited by the State Media giving shocking exposes details that the highly emotional abduction of Dr Peter Magombeyi in September last year, that triggered public outrage, was in fact staged by the MDC Alliance working with the American Embassy to malign the image of the Emmerson Mnangagwa goverment.

Mashakada’s mistimed hopeless revelations come at a time when goverment is harassing similarly abducted three female MDC activists.

“During the alleged abduction period of the ZHDA leader, Dr Peter Magombeyi, MDC-A senior members Douglas Coltart and Arnold Tsunga allegedly organised accommodation for him at the US Embassy in Westgate where he stayed for five days.

“An instruction was given from the party to make noise about this on social media and to tag all foreign adversaries. Magombeyi left the embassy on September 19 with his cellphone well charged and a team from the embassy drove him and left him at Nyabira where he started calling his friends. After some medical examinations, it was proved that Magombeyi was fit and was never tortured.

“He got a reward from the Americans who sponsored his luxurious vacation in an expensive hotel in South Africa,” said Mr Mashakada.

Mashakada said Magombeyi’s abduction was another well calculated move which took place when the UN General Assembly was coming and when a high-ranking delegation was visiting Zimbabwe to assess the human rights situation.

“Dr Magombeyi was not a threat to Government to warrant abduction by State agents and what would the Government gain by abducting the medical doctor at such a time when they were trying to clean up their own image? The MDC Alliance was only trying to push the narrative that there were gross human rights abuses in Zimbabwe and to call for more sanctions.

“This Magombeyi case is a ruse, everything we stage managed. I left the MDC Alliance because these people are after money and tarnishing the image of the Government for nothing and for this they are doing all sorts of nasty things. The movement has been captured and high jacked by some external forces and no longer serving the purpose,” said Mr Mashakada.

A fortnight ago, Mashakada also made unfounded claims that the MDC Alliance was sponsored by the ZANU PF G40 faction. He also made shallow claims that the party’s top officials helped themselves to $2 million from Government, claims which were since dismissed by no nonsense MDC Alliance Treasurer General David Coltart.

Exiled former ZANU PF heavyweight Jonathan Moyo has since revealed that Mashakada has been a ZANU PF agent within the opposition party for a long time.