Below is a series of tweets by the exiled Prof Jonathan Moyo exposing ZANU PF leader Emmerson Mnangagwa’s commission of inquiry into the August 1st shootings:

Emmerson Mnangagwa has appointed a Commission of Inquiry to inquire into “The Post-Election Violence on the First of August 2018”. While some, like Theresa May (British Prime Minister), who has made her views known, will see this as a pledge well kept, there are FOUR fundamental wrongs with the Commission!

So the first fundamental wrong is that by acting like a King, Mnangagwa has violated s110(3) of the Constitution. He can’t appoint a Commission of this nature without the advice of Cabinet & without a responsible minister to oversee the Commission & facilitate its work!

And to the four wrongs. First, it is fundamentally wrong for Mnangagwa to appoint such a Commission before appointing a Cabinet whose advice was necessary in terms of the Constitution. Mnangagwa, who stole the election, thinks he can do decrees like a King; just like that!

It’s very clear that one of Mnangagwa’s major reasons for rushing to appoint this Commission, without a Cabinet in place, is to fix Chiwenga, with the help of @CatrionaLaing1, to weaken his hand in cabinet selection & to later oust him. Chiwenga is certainly on the ropes!

The third thing that is fundamentally wrong with the Commission is that its terms of reference, whose authorship is unknown, are accusatory when they should be open ended for fact-finding purposes. This renders the terms of reference to be self-discrediting & thus political!

The first term of reference says: “to inquire into the circumstances leading to the 1st of August, 2018 post-election violence”. How about the Harare Massacre & the subsequent 10 day siege of townships where residents were brutally tortured & some abducted by the Army? Smh!

The second term of reference says “to identify the actors & their leaders, their motive & strategies employed in the protests”. How about the need to identify the soldiers who bayoneted, beat up, tortured civilians or shot them in the back; their strategies & orders? Please!

The second fundamentally wrong thing are the Commission’s terms of reference. Whose are they? Who drafted them? Mnangagwa? @CatrionaLaing1? UK govt? When @theresa_may praised Mnangagwa on the Commission in SA yesterday, did she know something that Zimbabweans did not know?

Term of reference (d) on page 2 says “to investigate the the circumstances which NECESSITATED the involvement of the military in assisting in the maintenance of law & order”. Who says the involvement of the military was NECESSARY? This term of reference is a conclusion!

It’s notable that while Mnangagwa’s chief election agent, Ziyambi Ziyambi, barred @AdvDali_Mpofu & his colleagues from representing @nelsonchamisa in the ConCourt on xenophobic grounds that they are aliens, Mnangagwa has appointed a Commission whose majority are foreigners!

The fourth fundamentally wrong thing with the Commission is that its terms of reference do not address the loss of life in the Harare Massacre. Term of reference (f) refers to “extent of damage/injury”. This is outrageous. It’s criminal… Mnangagwa is mad!

So Mnangagwa’s Commission is unconstitutional. It’s composition is a scratch-my-back I scratch-your-back affair. And its terms of reference are political & corrupt. In effect, the Commission is not designed to achieve justice; which is the cry of the victims & the people.