Tendai Biti, the MDC co-vice president has responded to Zanu PF acting spokesperson, Patrick Chinamasa who early this week accused him of biting the hand that fed him by continuously fighting against the ZANU PF government.

At a press conference on Monday, Chinamasa took an unprecedented swipe at Biti accusing him of being a puppet of the West.

“I have respect for him (Biti) for his intellectual prowess. Let me say that he is very clever,” Chinamasa said.

“But my disappointment is that he uses money that Zanu PF used to educate him to undermine the revolution to be a puppet and often I wonder how such an intelligent person cannot realise that he is being duped by his handlers. It is a pity.”

However, Biti hit back at Chinamasa, describing the former justice minister as a failed, dangerous Zanu PF appendage.

“Patrick Chinamasa is a failed but dangerous Zanu PF appendage. He is a sadistic, ruthless and cunning apparatchik without any restraint or limits,” he said.

“Part of his insane zeal comes from the fact that he did not participate in the liberation struggle, was hiding in a law firm. We reject the insane and unbalanced remarks of Chinamasa, a political ramshackle that needs to retire.”