The ruling Zanu PF party claims that the United States of
America tried to sabotage their campaign by blocking them from wiring their
transaction to a Chinese firm which printed the party’s regalia until the party
sought ways of circumventing the restrictions and get the money to China
without detection by New York, TellZim News has heard.
Addressing an inter-district meeting last weekend at
Masvingo Polytechnic College recently, Zanu PF politburo member and principal
director of the Hebert Chitepo School of Ideology, Munyaradzi Machacha lashed
out at America for trying to effect regime change hiding behind MDC Alliance
leader, Nelson Chamisa.
It was said that the Chinese firm which printed the Zanu PF
campaign material had refused to release the regalia until they were paid, a
development which caused delays in the arrival of the regalia.
Most, if not all, global financial transactions go through
New York, and are closely monitored by the US treasury department and CIA which
have power to freeze dealings suspected to be involving sanctioned individuals,
organisations, states and terrorist movements.
Flanked by Zanu PF chief whip Pupurai Togarepi and Senator
Josaya Hungwe, Machacha declared that the United States was the real enemy of
the country and should be treated as such in any dealings the country finds
itself in with them.
Machacha narrated how America tried to sabotage and derail
the Zanu PF campaign by making sure that the payment to China failed.
“We are fighting a formidable enemy. America mukono.
Hachisi chana chidoko chaunorova mbama chochema chichimhanya kumakumbo amai
(America is a real giant; it’s not like a child one can easily beat up).
“We had a problem with regalia during our campaigning
period. The regalia was done in China and it was finished in time. The problem
came when we wanted to pay the supplier his money. He said he was not going to
release the regalia until we wired his payment into his account.
“We wired the money and it was hanging for about a week
then it reflected back into our account. We tried wiring the money again and it
spent two weeks suspended before reflecting back into our account.
“President Mnangagwa then thought of other ways of getting
the money to China, avoiding monitoring by the Americans and we successfully
delivered the money and our regalia was released but it was too late because
people had already started voting,” said Machacha.
He said that planes loaded with regalia arrived in the
country late and there were heaps of regalia awaiting distribution at the
party’s headquarters in Harare.
“You should go and tell our people that we have a lot of
regalia in Harare and it is coming. We know our people are not happy but we
will give all our Members of Parliament enough to distribute to their
respective constituencies as we celebrate our victory.
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