Exiled former Higher Education minister Jonathan Moyo
claims President Emmerson Mnangagwa tried to assassinate him and he has
evidence to prove it.
Moyo made the claims as he reacted to reports that the
government is trying to extradite him from Kenya where he is exiled after he
fled Zimbabwe during the 2017 coup that toppled the late Robert Mugabe.
The government says it wants the former Zanu PF strategist
to return home to face charges of fraud involving Zimbabwe Manpower Development
Fund (Zimdef) resources when he was Higher Education minister.
Moyo said he fled the country after soldiers tried to kill
him and his family and argued that Mnangagwa’s government still wanted him
dead.
“I am where I am, in terms of international law following a
premeditated military attack on my home and family whose aim was to kill me, on
November 15, 2017,” Moyo said.
“The evidence of that military attack is in the public
record.
“The only person who does not know about it is Mnangagwa’s
henchman, prosecutor general [Kumbirai] Hodzi.
“His extradition quest, which will be vigorously dealt with
in terms of international law, is a desperate last-ditch effort to do what the
army failed to do against me on November 15, 2017.”
Moyo said the government tried to engage Interpol to
facilitate his arrest and extradition but failed.
He said certain incidents, including alleged plots to
assassinate him, showed that the government was persecuting him.
“Prior to this, Mnangagwa had gone out of his way to use
Interpol to no avail,” Moyo added.
“When the Interpol option failed, Mnangagwa used all sorts
of extrajudicial plots against me, including attempted assassination, whose incontrovertible
evidence I have.”
Moyo said while Hodzi was drafting the extradition letter,
the Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission (Zacc) was working with the Military
Intelligence Department (MID) to seize his car in Harare.
“In the operation, MID and Zacc illegally seized a vehicle,
a Ford Ranger, that I was allocated in 2011 as a Jomic commissioner, along with
other commissioners from the MDC-T, MDC-Mutambara and Zanu PF who formed the
then GNU,” Moyo said.
“Astonishingly, and to show how political Hodzi’s
extradition plot is, the MID and Zacc — working with a very vulgar Ferret
operative from the CIO — claimed that they were seizing the Ford Ranger,
allocated to me in 2011 when I was not even in government, in connection with
the 2016 Zimdef allegations that arose when I was Higher Education minister
between July 2015 and November 2017.
“One cannot find a more malicious, more political, and more
ridiculous case than this.
“Meanwhile, Mnangagwa’s henchman, prosecutor general Hodzi,
wants the world to believe that his extradition conspiracy over a highly
politicised Zimdef case that came up in 2016 is not political.”
He queried why the military’s MID was working with Zacc in
this case.
“When the MID and Zacc illegally seized my Ford Ranger last
Thursday, they caused a public spectacle in which they humiliated and abused a
close relative of mine; and the CIO Ferret operative made a lot of scandalous
allegations against me, including that I poisoned Emmerson Mnangagwa in 2017,”
the former minister said.
“He also said Mnangagwa is going to seize all my assets,
including my Mazowe farm, like he is doing to former PCG (police commissioner
general) Augustine Chihuri.
“The illegal seizure by MID and Zacc last Thursday of my
Ford Ranger vehicle, allocated to me by Jomic way back in 2011, is proof enough
of the political nature of the MID and Zacc case.”
John Makamure, the Zacc spokesperson, denied charges that
the commission was working with the military and that it was involved in the
seizure of Moyo’s car.
“Zacc is an independent organisation and does not work with
the military,” Makamure said.
“We carry out our own independent investigations. I am not
aware of any confiscation of a vehicle owned by Jonathan Moyo.”
Meanwhile, Ndabaningi Mangwana, the government
spokesperson, said Mnangagwa had no intentions to kill Moyo.
“Zimbabwe does not assassinate people,” Mangwana said. “We believe in the rule of law.
“That statement by Jonathan Moyo is a pitch for him to be
considered as a genuine asylum seeker. He is not. He is a fugitive from
justice.
“We have a lot of faith in our criminal justice system and
we believe everyone should have their day in court, Jonathan Moyo included.
“The only attempted assassinations we are aware of were on
President Mnangagwa when he was VP by the G40 cabal and as president in
Bulawayo. There is no prize for guessing who was behind those attempts on the
president’s life.
“Fugitives from justice should come and clear their names.
Some have been cleared, vindicating the impartiality of our judicial system.”
Moyo is accused of diverting US$244 575 in Zimdef funds,
but he maintains that the charges were politically motivated. Standard
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