By A Correspondent- President Emmerson Mnangagwa has promoted a top soldier who instigated the 2008 blood elections David Sigauke to the new Zimbabwe National Army commander.

The violence instigator’s appointment follows the recent demise of Lieutenant-General Edzai Chimonyo who succumbed to cancer

The now Lieutenant General Sigauke’s appointment is with immediate effect.

Before his new appointment, Sigauke was a Major-General and the military Chief of Staff (General Staff).

He was promoted to Major General on 18 December 2017.

Sigauke in 2008 after the defeat of the then Zanu PF Presidential candidate, Robert Mugabe by Morgan Tsvangirai of the MDC, incited violence against the opposition supporters.

Six months before the 2008 elections, Sigauke was quoted in the media as having said, “As soldiers, we have the privilege to defend this task (of guaranteeing Mugabe and Zanu PF rule) on two fronts: the first being through the ballot box, and second being the use of the barrel of the gun should the worse come to the worst. I may therefore urge you as citizens of Zimbabwe to exercise your electoral right wisely in the forthcoming election in 2008, remembering that Zimbabwe shall never be a colony again.”