A Senior Politburo (ZANU PF’s highest decision making body) former member has become the first ZANU PF icon to open his fire on named Central Intelligence Organisation agents for the abduction of democracy activist Itai Dzamara.
Until the weekend, no Zimbabwean had to date taken any bravery to name and shame specific people for Dzamara’s disappearance with the Police for over four months refusing to search for him. At one point Spokesperson Charity Charamba told ZimEye.com they would only investigate as they doubted that Dzamara was abducted by the CIO.
But as he physically apprehended a female CIO agent trailing him, Mr Kudakwashe Bhasikiti who is well connected to the CIO, fingered three intelligence officers detailing that they are the ones who took Dzamara on the 9th March. While it was not clear how Bhasikiti had performed his verification methods, he announced, “I now have no doubt in my mind that these people are the same people who abducted Dzamara,” he said without revealing their names and is now set to publish their full profiles this week.
He explained his ordeal to the local Daily News, “I was being followed by three vehicles, which included a Toyota Fortuner, to and from my house. Whenever I got home they would leave a young woman who appeared harmless sitting near my exit point or just close by.
“This has been going on for the whole week. This morning (yesterday) they followed my driver as he went to buy bread. We were alerted to this by concerned neighbours and we phoned the driver and he duly saw them.
“On his way back they again followed him and dropped the girl at the same point. It was at that point that I asked my guys to apprehend the young woman and we took her to Borrowdale Police Station,” Bhasikiti said.
Asked if the lady had offered any resistance when his aides had charged at her, the former Mwenezi East legislator said there had been “a struggle” as they moved to apprehend her.
“I could see a person close to my home daily when I left home and even when I returned. However, it did not occur to me that anything was amiss until some gardeners and airtime vendors told me that I was being trailed.
“When we moved to apprehend her, the young woman resisted and tried to phone some people, but we took her to the police who questioned her.
“When we asked the police officer who was doing the questioning who the girl was, he just said she was from the system.
“As we were leaving the police station, we noticed the vehicle that had dropped her near my house, since my driver had the number plates. The police went to the car and when they arrived, the two men inside closed the windows and sped off.
“After that group had sped off, another group came in and another young lady who initially said she stayed in Sunningdale but later claimed to stay in Glen View claimed that the young woman we had apprehended was her relative.
Bhasikiti, was recently expelled from President Robert Mugabe’s warring party on untested allegations of plotting to oust and kill the frail and long-ruling nonagenarian.