By A Correspondent| Recently appointed Deputy Information Minister Kindness Paradza has been accused of sponsoring a youth militia following sharp disagreements during a Zanu PF DCC meeting resulting in running battles in Chinhoyi on Saturday.

Paradza who is the Zanu-PF district coordinating committee (DCC) chairperson for Makonde was accused by party youths of protecting one Ketty Chanetsa whom they suspected of being a G40 mole.

The ruling party officials were forced to end the meeting abruptly and armed police officers, on standby, escorted Paradza and his security aides from the venue.

However, soon after he left the venue of the meeting, the Chinhoyi Public Service Training Centre, was turned into a war-zone as Paradza’s militia armed with machetes, stones, beer bottles, and a spear, arrived aboard his party-issued double-cab truck before unleashing violence against fellow party youths.

Party sources alleged that DCC youth chairpersons accused Paradza of failing to take action against Chanetsa.

The meeting, sources said, only reconvened after Chanetsa was forced to leave the venue.

This is when all hell broke loose as the MP’s armed mob descended on the venue and clashed with fellow Zanu-PF youths who were keeping vigil to block Chanetsa from attending the indaba.

Earlier Saturday, Paradza had attended World Press Freedom Day commemorations at Cooksey Hall in Chinhoyi while the youth gang from his Makonde constituency milled around the venue.

He uncannily told journalists attending the event he had mobilised the youths and was taking them to the DCC meeting.