
By Own Correspondent| As the wave of repression on opposition political party supporters continues following the announcement of election results (Friday), Alliance partner, Tendai Biti’s security personnel escaped a freak accident by a whisker after four cars gave chase to one of their vehicles in Greendale Harare on Sunday.
One of Biti’s boys told ZimEye that he believes that the men who were on their trail and wanted to abduct them are from the military.
According to the source, the cars which trailed them included a black toyota blade, a silver benz, white toyota camry and toyota hilux.
Below is one of the cars which he alleged was trailing them:
Narrating what happened on the day, Biti’s boys drove one of Biti’s cars to Greendale intending to park the vehicle.
They however noticed that two cars were following them and they went and parked the car along the road and one of them disembarked. The cars stopped where they had previously parked the vehicle and started asking questions to people who were nearby.
One of the boys who had disembarked noticed that the net was closing in on him and he immediately called his colleague who was parked nearby to pick him up on the main road. He started running towards the main road and realised that about 4 cars were now on his trail.
Fortunately, the colleague driving the car arrived since he was nearby and picked him up before the four cars intensified their chase. One of the cars aimed at the driver of the car who swerved and the car only managed to hit the right side of the car.
Said the source:
“My thinking is that they thought that Biti was in the car but he was not. I thought that they wanted to abduct us.”
He revealed that opposition supporters were now living in fear since they were being targeted by unknown assailants.
The development comes in the wake of revelations that opposition activists in Zimbabwe are having a torrid time at the hands of the military since the announcement of presidential election results which saw President Emmerson Mnangagwa garner 50.8 percent vote against arch rival MDC Alliance’s Nelson Chamisa who got 44.3 percent.
Human rights groups have however raised the flag reporting that dozens of abductions, beatings and rapes targeting opposition political party supporters have surfaced instilling fear and reminding citizens of the 2008 era under the leadership of former president Robert Mugabe.