Correspondent|EXILED former Cabinet Minister Professor Jonathan Moyo has claimed that President Emmerson Mnangagwa threatened to decapitate his head in a heated politiburo meeting in the presence of former leader Robert Mugabe.
“Mnangagwa openly threatened to kill me after I presented a video on his and Chiwenga’s coup plot in the politburo in July 2017, by declaring to the politburo that the best way deal with people like me is to do what they used to do to “sellouts” in Maputo whose necks used to be separated from their shoulders,” Moyo said in an interview with Alex Magaisa, published on Saturday.
“Mnangagwa’s threat to me was also a confirmation of his murderous deeds in Maputo.
“I sat in the politburo looking at him and thinking of what happened to my father and I got very angry, leading to my angry outburst which was referenced by President Mugabe.
“All said, my considered judgment has always been that Mnangagwa is not presidential material.
“While he is clearly streetwise, he’s not a statesman by any stretch of the imagination.
“He is a very cruel person and his threat to separate my neck from my shoulders in the politburo and his boast that they used to separate necks from shoulders of comrades in Maputo is an example of extreme cruelty and barbarism.
“National and world leaders are well read people of letters. President Mugabe was and still is a man of letters. He is a well-read gentleman.
“I have always wondered whether Mnangagwa has ever read any book besides school and college textbooks he had to read as a student. You can tell whether a person reads books by their speech. People who read books are great speakers and great thinkers. Mnangagwa is not in this category.
“In any event, it cannot be right that a person who oversaw the CIO during the Gukurahundi days and the state of emergency when the CIO was a killing machine that used extreme torture methods can become a president of a constitutional democracy. It just cannot be.
“It is not surprising that it took a military coup for Mnangagwa to become president.He had no other path.It is also not a surprise that the same military stole the election for him. Again, he had no other path.”