via Mujuru under 24 hour surveillance 11 December 2014
President Robert Mugabe has increased state intelligence placed under 24 hour surveillance, on his former deputy, Joice Mujuru, in the wake of the Zanu (PF) congress that ended last Sunday.
Security sources said Mujuru had been placed under a 24 hour surveillance by details from the Central Intelligence Organisation (CIO) to record her movements and the people she is interacting with.
Mujuru was not responding to calls on her mobile phone on several attempts while her assistant, Patricia Parwada, was said to be out of office on numerous occasions The Zimbabwean called.
“Mai Mujuru has been very quiet and HE (His Excellency) and the Mnangagwa faction are not sure what she is thinking. It is now a guessing game and this is the reason why she has been placed on a 24 hour surveillance,’ said one of the sources.
Mujuru has been under intense vilification from her factional rival, Justice minister Emerson Mnangagwa, Grace Mugabe and those loyal to the faction.
They have accused her of attempting to topple President Mugabe, corruption and working with the political opposition to succeed the 90 year old ruler, who has also repeated the same accusations.
Mujuru did not attend the 6th Zanu (PF) congress fearing for her life after open threats from Grace and Zanu (PF) militias aligned to Mnangagwa.
She has been removed from her position as the party’s deputy.
The sources said Mujuru had been under casual surveillance from the time Grace publicly accused her of corruption and trying to use irregular means to take over from Mugabe, but more details were deployed to monitor her after congress.
“HE is very angry that Mujuru had the guts to snub the congress. He sees that as a humiliation and never thought she would stay away. It is not clear what he plans to do with her but he seems unsettled by the fact that she is playing her cards close to her chest,” said another intelligence source.
He added that Mujuru was minimizing her movements and was mostly confined to her Chisipite home fearing fatal eventualities like a staged car crash. Some zanu(pf) leaders have been died in car crashes after falling out of favour.
The source said it was highly unlikely Mugabe would harm her, unless it became evident that she planned to take action that would threaten his hold on power.
Mugabe is reportedly worried that Mujuru may join hands with western governments and the opposition to form a challenge against him ahead of the 2018 general elections.
She has vowed that she will remain loyal to Zanu (PF), but the sources said she could decide to launch a contest for the Zanu (PF) leadership by declaring that the just ended congress was illegal.
The agent revealed that Happyton Bonyongwe, who has in the past been linked to the Mujuru camp, had gone unusually quiet and hardly held regular meetings with his subordinates.
“There is so much suspicion among us now. There is talk that the Mnangagwa faction wants him to be relieved of his post and he seems to have become extremely cautious, preferring to watch from a distance,” he said.
Mujuru is also avoiding meeting with other party stalwarts, the sources said, but is talking mostly to her church colleagues in the Apostolic Christian Council of Zimbabwe where she is patron and the Salvation Army, whose leadership at one time is reported to have advised her to quit politics and concentrate on charity work. Her most regular visitors in Chisipite, they said, are her family members, while she has hardly been seen at her Munhumutapa office that she is set to leave once Mugabe names his new deputies.
On Monday, Mujuru issued a statement addressed to Zimbabweans indicating that she lived in fear, and denied all the allegations levelled against her by her political rivals.
COMMENTS
Sori henyu Mai Mujuru. Welcome to the group of fearful persons. Some of us have been living in fear for the last 34 years. You will certainly get used to it.
Paranoid and a waste of resources. Who is afraid of assassination..definitely not Mugabe but Mnangagwa and Grace because they know they lied to Zanu puff and in their bloodless party coup created more enemies than friends even the security details they are abusing are not in support of them.
Whilst the president has the power to appoint his deputies in terms of the new ZANU PF constituion, eyebrows have been raised because of the of the explusion of amai Mujuru on the grounds of curruption among other issues. If amai Mujuru is removed from her post of vp corruption and other trumped up allegations, how is it possible for a person like Chombo be promoted to a post of party Administration which is a very senior post when not so long ago his property and wealth was made public in the divorce documents. Can someone explain how he managed to acquire such property and if it does not border on corruption then we need a new definition for corruption. How can mugabe and his wife on one hand accuse amai Mujuru for corruption and turn a blind eye on Chombo’s corruption and reward him by a promotion and on the other hand accuse amai Mujuru for corruption. The day of reckoning will surely come and the generality of Zimbaweans will have their say on who has benefited from corruption including the so-called first family.
So much money is spent on satisfying someone’s paranoia instead of being spent more deserving programs. With so many perceived enemies it’s not surprising that the President’s office gets most of the budget allocation. So tragic yet so true.
Corruption is defined in the Zanu puff dictionary as having different views to Mugabe.If you are his praise singer you can milk the country dry and be termed as earning an honest income. Mugabe is the architect of corruption as he diverted the monies that were meant for ex-liberation combatants in 1982 and the monies for land redestribution (minda mirefu) between 1984- 1987 then sanctioned the chaotic 2002 land grab so he and his cronies could grab as much land as theie eyes lusted after.
Under which budget did Grace do those insulting tours and from which budget is the survaillance? Is this not classic corruption?
Corruption is a condition of membership of Zanooo – surely EVERYONE knows that? They are ALL corrupt, every last one of them. As someone above pointed out, what about Ignorance Chombo? And all the rest?
You cannot be a member of Zanooo unless you are a criminal, can you?
Just a qustion – if Mugabe is not corrupt – how did he manage to buy palatces in Hong Kong and Malaysia and managed to build a $50 million palace in Harare?
Also – how can he afford giving a $5 million wedding party for his daughter?
ZIM-ASSET
Good answer Mukanya
Another question please? Will it take a week or shorter before Mujuru and the Ministrs fired by Mugabe are arrested on trumped-up charges?
Will it not be better for their own safety to find refuge outside of Zimbabwe?
Please dont arrest amai mujuru.She has not blocked Zanu pf from choosing a successor.Please lets not much time plotting to kill each when industry is down like this.Lets now watch the perfomance of the new government.To you munangagwa this is time to prove your worthness.I have confidence in your experience in government.
During the GNU an ant-corruption commision was set up and if I remember well, sme crption cases opened agnst Ignatius Chombo and the belly Obert Mpofu were never properly investigated
This is not news. C they first eliminated Solomon – somehow. This greedy woman should have gone home and said Bob you killed him. Gallible and greedy, she went along. Sweetness of ‘power’. Now the axe is on her.