By Terrence Mawawa| Special Assistant to the President for Press and Public Relations Amos Chanda on Friday sent a plethora of derogatory messages to Roan PF Member of Parliament Chishimba Kambwili for criticising the way he “oversteps his mandate as Presidential spokesperson”.
Last week, Chanda featured on a special Sunday Interview in which he responded to the American State department and explained why government decided to deny Zimbabwe’s opposition leader Tandai Biti political asylum.
But Kambwili, after appearing for a court session the following day, told journalists that Chanda was overstepping his mandate, adding that his arrogance while on TV was
unnecessary.
This agitated Chanda who, after watching Kambwili’s reaction, could not resist but throw a bucket of insults at the former chief government spokesperson.
Below are the text messages, which Chanda and Kambwili exchanged on August 17: Chanda: I saw your despicable interview you gave after one of your many court sessions.
In that interview, you admit that when you were in government, you used to give slow poison to opposition leaders and, therefore, you are sure “Zimbabwe government poisoned Hon. Tendai Biti and he would die in ten years.
Now, that’s the reasoning of a buffoon like you that you see others through your dirty eyes. In my six years in government, I have never heard [or] seen anything like that, but I cannot argue with self-confessed killers like you.
In any case, killing is not new to you. In Chingola and Luanshya, you maimed and killed people who stood in your way of stealing copper and scrap metal and those who resisted your car-jacking.
Some of the victims of your crimes are still alive and can be presented anytime. With your forged degrees, what do you know about sophisticated diplomacy and international relationship’s that I don’t know! Keep your dirty vengeance-filled mouth shut and
focus on your health challenges that now seem to have migrated to your big, but empty head.
You rabid dog, can you find any other way of dying than dragging me (sic) to your self- inflicted problems?
Chanda: Don’t just read and keep quite (sic) and when you get in front on a camera again you get excited and make false allegations
against innocent people.
I am properly educated and understand my role and the President who appointed me is equally more educated than you are, so what is your beef about how I do my work; have [you] seen my contract and terms of reference for you to make it your business to bark at how I do my work. If you think you can go ahead and malign me each time you see a camera or microphone, this time you will see that it does not pay to use the media to bark at innocent people Kambwili: Thanks a lot boss Amos, most
educated man.
Kambwili: The hour of reckoning is near, very near.
Chanda: I am definitely more educated thanbaseless idiot like you. Respond your crimes
instead of sending empty threats.