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Two senior MDC officials have stormed the offices of TellZim
News in Masvingo which exposed a clandestine plot to oust all the sitting MDC-T
Masvingo urban councillors through imposition of new candidates.
District chairperson Murangamwa Chanyau and provincial
administrator Peter Chigaba stormed the newspaper's offices and threw a fit of
rage, accusing the paper of peddling a Zanu PF agenda.
Chigaba and Chanyau took turns to fire expletives while
demanding to see who had written the story headlined 'MDC-T Masvingo plots coup
on sitting councillors'.
The duo drove an Isuzu truck which was emblazoned with
party colours and logo into TellZim News' premises, with a visibly drunk
Chanyau, without bothering to provide the slightest sliver of proof, claiming
that the newspaper is being bribed by Zanu PF to fight MDC-T.
The two went into overdrive accusing the paper of doing the
bidding for former MDC-T legislator for Masvingo Urban, Tongai Matutu while
disparaging his rival Takanayi Mureyi. Much of their theatrics at the offices
was captured on video.
"Munoda change here imi? Change yacho inouya sei kana
muchinyora muchidai. Muri kutengwa neZanu (PF) imi. (Do you want change in this
country? How can change be possible when you write stories like this? You are
being bribed by Zanu to write this trash) We expect Herald kuti idaro kwete imi
(We expect Herald to write such negative stories, and not you)," charged
Chigaba.
In his tirade, Chanyau, who was the most vocal, accused all
in the newsroom of receiving bribes from Matutu whom he claimed was buying beer
for them.
"Manje Matutu wenyu haatongi even (Hubert) Fidze
wacho. Matutu is not MDC (Matutu and Fidze will never represent the
party)," charged Chanyau.
Fidze is the current City of Masvingo mayor and councillor
for Ward 6, but his position, as well as those held by four other sitting MDC-T
councillors, has been earmarked for somebody else who is favoured by a faction
of new comers.
"Munotadza kunyora about Zanu PF; hamuna kudzidza mose
imi. Manje MDC ichangotonga chero mukainyora zvakashata (You are writing bad
about us instead of Zanu PF. You are not educated at all – we are going to rule
this country)," said Chanyau seething with anger.
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