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Treacherous war veterans document unsettle ZANU PF
25 Jul 2016 at 07:32hrs | Views
File photo: Minister of Defence, Sydney Sekeramayi with War Veterans
War Veterans' call for 92-year-old President Robert Mugabe to resign continues to unsettle top ZANU-PF officials.
The brave freedom fighters issued a strongly worded statement, threatened not to campaign for Mugabe in the 2018 presidential polls among other issues.
At the weekend, ZANU PF officials took turns to attack the veterans.
Below are some of the comments picked by Bulawayo24.com.
Vice President Phelekezela Mphoko described war veterans as rebels.
"When people start talking against their Commander-in-Chief it means that they're now rebels. If that communique was written by the war veterans it's either they don't know their role as war veterans or they're being used by other people".
Minister of Defence, Sydney Sekeramayi: "You also get a situation that it might be our enemies.
" In any organisation there are people who are persuaded whom we normally refer to as the Fifth Column. They might be used by our enemies to infiltrate us.
"A treacherous document of that nature is not just written without people converging and agreeing on points to make. There is no war veteran who would be so disparaging about the President of the party and country. It's impossible,".
Minister for the Welfare Services for War Veterans, War Collaborators, Ex-Political Detainees and Restrictees, Retired Colonel Tshinga Dube : "There are so many documents flooding around and sometimes we mistakenly think that they are written by war veterans yet they would have come from people outside the war veterans.
"We don't want to say it's them because we're not sure it's them who wrote that. We will interview as many war veterans as possible to find out whether they honour the authorship of the document.
George Mlala, a member of the war veterans' council of elders: "We don't subscribe to that as war veterans. War veterans have no mandate to talk against the President because he was not elected by war veterans but by the people of Zimbabwe.
"What has been said in that communique is out of context and not supported by war veterans. If there are any war veterans who don't want President Mugabe to be their patron anymore, they should say it out at congress not through a communique."
The brave freedom fighters issued a strongly worded statement, threatened not to campaign for Mugabe in the 2018 presidential polls among other issues.
At the weekend, ZANU PF officials took turns to attack the veterans.
Below are some of the comments picked by Bulawayo24.com.
Vice President Phelekezela Mphoko described war veterans as rebels.
"When people start talking against their Commander-in-Chief it means that they're now rebels. If that communique was written by the war veterans it's either they don't know their role as war veterans or they're being used by other people".
" In any organisation there are people who are persuaded whom we normally refer to as the Fifth Column. They might be used by our enemies to infiltrate us.
"A treacherous document of that nature is not just written without people converging and agreeing on points to make. There is no war veteran who would be so disparaging about the President of the party and country. It's impossible,".
Minister for the Welfare Services for War Veterans, War Collaborators, Ex-Political Detainees and Restrictees, Retired Colonel Tshinga Dube : "There are so many documents flooding around and sometimes we mistakenly think that they are written by war veterans yet they would have come from people outside the war veterans.
"We don't want to say it's them because we're not sure it's them who wrote that. We will interview as many war veterans as possible to find out whether they honour the authorship of the document.
George Mlala, a member of the war veterans' council of elders: "We don't subscribe to that as war veterans. War veterans have no mandate to talk against the President because he was not elected by war veterans but by the people of Zimbabwe.
"What has been said in that communique is out of context and not supported by war veterans. If there are any war veterans who don't want President Mugabe to be their patron anymore, they should say it out at congress not through a communique."
Source - Byo24News
