By A Correspondent| The young charismatic preacher, Talent (affectionately called Apostle) Chiwenga has misled Zimbabweans while defending ZANU PF leader Emmerson Mnangagwa saying he is not responsible for the military mass murders of the 1st August 2018. In a September LIVE video, Chiwenga said the blame for the killing of at least 7 civilians, is instead on a man he labelled “a mad man,” presumed to be Ret Gen. Constantino Chiwenga.
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But facts on the ground show that contrary to the preacher’s claims, soldiers had under Mnangagwa, clear standing military orders to use firepower (to make sure Mnangagwa is made president again) and this was as early as December last year. Mnangagwa presided over this declaration to practice terrorism by his own advisor, Chris Mutsvangwa at a party function in Harare. (LIVE video 15 Dec 2017). As Mnangagwa was on that day ushered to the podium, ZNA soldiers were publicly told to use their military powers to “mobilise” to ensure Emmerson Mnangagwa returns to state house. Mutsvangwa, said Zanu PF should win emphatically in the 2018 elections with a bigger margin than the 1980 elections that Mugabe won resoundingly to end colonial rule.
“We will win resoundingly, better than the 1980 elections and we will mobilise heavily working with the ZDF,” he said.
He also described the army as “our illustrious army.”
In May the following year, two senior officials, Josiah Hungwe and Terrence Mukupe once again declared the same with Hungwe telling people in Chiredzi, that Mnangagwa would shoot his way to power. Said Hungwe, “do you know that I am the leader of the new dispensation here in Masvingo and I say ichi chinhu chedu chatakaita (this is our thing; it’s our creation).
“Our leader Mnangagwa is a soldier and you know that a soldier is always equipped with a gun to do whatever he wants. If you want to run away from him he can shoot you so you should always know that,” Hungwe said, while commissioning a clinic in Chiredzi.
His remarks added to those by the then deputy Finance minister Terrence Mukupe who declared that soldiers would ensure MDC leader, Nelson Chamisa, does not become President if he wins this year’s election.
Mukupe, who is Mnangagwa’s in law relative spoke in a LIVE video in Mandara, Harare also beamed by ZimEye.com back then. (see video).
Said Mukupe, “how can we say, honestly, the soldiers took the country, practically snatched it from Mugabe, to come and hand it over to Chamisa?
“A child talking about spaghetti roads, who is talking about impregnating all women?
“This country, where it is now and where it is coming from, needs a grown up, a steady hand, a person who can stabilise things.”
Mukupe said while he also wanted to be President of the country, he was not yet mature enough to handle the office or even to have soldiers saluting him, the same manner Chamisa wanted to be saluted.
“Look at me, I also want to be a President, there is no one who does not want to seat in the (Mercedes) Benz while sirens are sounding all the way, but everything has its time,” he said.
“I don’t think that I am mature enough to be given the country to run and all the soldiers in this country salute me saying ‘the commander in chief is here’.
“But I heard Chamisa, at another rally, saying in the morning he wakes up and practices how to inspect a guard of honour.”
“…the soldiers took the country, practically snatched it from Mugabe..” . “… to come and hand it over to Chamisa?”
Subsequently the 1 August, shootings were done right in the middle of a clear man made delay when Presidential election results remained unannounced in a long drag that saw them being made public 3 days later. V11 Evidence submitted to the Constitutional Court on the 21st August shows Chamisa had clearly won the election, but Chief Justice Luke Malaba would (after rejecting much of the filed evidence) declare saying that “we believe in facts not figures.”