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Top CIO's death divides Zanu-PF
25 May 2013 at 11:48hrs | Views
THE death of Central Intelligence Organisation (CIO) deputy director (internal) Elias Kanengoni, who was 60, has divided Zanu-PF amid reports that the Mashonaland Central provincial party leadership was fiercely resisting the spy agency's request to accord him national hero status.
Kanengoni, a former Zanu-PF central committee member, collapsed at his Whitecliff Farm in Mazowe and was pronounced dead on arrival at a private clinic in Harare on Wednesday.
According to Zanu-PF protocol, should a senior member of the security forces die, both the sector and the party's provincial leadership where he hails from should make recommendations to accord hero status to the party politburo.
The process is usually instituted immediately after the cadre's death, but in Kanengoni's case, the province was yet to come up with a position by last night.
Well-placed Kanengoni family sources told NewsDay yesterday that the Dickson Mafios-led Zanu-PF Mashonaland Central provincial leadership was determined to ensure that the top spy was not buried at the national shrine because of party factionalism.
The family was adamant that they would accept nothing less than national hero status for Kanengoni, a veteran of the liberation struggle.
Kanengoni, a former Zanu-PF central committee member, collapsed at his Whitecliff Farm in Mazowe and was pronounced dead on arrival at a private clinic in Harare on Wednesday.
According to Zanu-PF protocol, should a senior member of the security forces die, both the sector and the party's provincial leadership where he hails from should make recommendations to accord hero status to the party politburo.
The process is usually instituted immediately after the cadre's death, but in Kanengoni's case, the province was yet to come up with a position by last night.
Well-placed Kanengoni family sources told NewsDay yesterday that the Dickson Mafios-led Zanu-PF Mashonaland Central provincial leadership was determined to ensure that the top spy was not buried at the national shrine because of party factionalism.
The family was adamant that they would accept nothing less than national hero status for Kanengoni, a veteran of the liberation struggle.
Source - newsday
