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Jonathan Moyo on Biti residence bombing
07 Jun 2011 at 13:25hrs | Views
Jonathan Moyo has dismissed a reported bomb blast at the home of MDC-T secretary general and Finance Minister Tendai Biti as a "fake incident" meant to draw sympathy from SADC leaders at a crucial summit on Zimbabwe starting on Saturday in South Africa.
"It's a rubbish story which is already contending for rubbish story of the year if not the decade," said Zanu PF politburo member Jonathan Moyo, part of Zanu PF's delegation to the weekend summit.
"The idea that any serious media anywhere in the world, even in a banana republic, will claim that a politician has escaped death in absentia is ludicrous.
"Otherwise there is not even one idiot in the world who has been fooled by this MDC-T yarn and its intention. It's a very clumsy ploy based on discredited Rhodesian Selous Scout-tactics of either getting attention, or distracting attention, and in this case they are trying to do both.
"They are trying to distract attention from their rally which flopped last Saturday, and we know when they want attention they scour hospitals and mortuaries looking for injured people or dead ones to present them as victims of violence.
"Now you can add pseudo stories of petrol bombs thrown at empty houses as if people doing the alleged assassination don't know that it's an empty house and there is no-one there."
Moyo added: "It's the same pattern used before the Livingstone summit when they (MDC-T) cooked up a dossier full of green lies, and they used that dossier to mislead SADC leaders by claiming that there was harassment and intimidation against them; claiming that so-called securocrats had staged a coup and were now running the country, and the President was no longer in charge.
"SADC leaders now know that they were taken for a huge ride by Tsvangirai. You should therefore see the bombing yarn as an attempt to distract the attention of regional leaders from the lies they told before Livingstone in order to suggest there is something untoward going on in Zimbabwe, that the Minister of Finance is a target."
Zimbabwe Sadc summit will start on Saturday and Moyo said "There will be two groups in South Africa - one defending the nation and another attacking it, we will see which of these two groups wins."
"It's a rubbish story which is already contending for rubbish story of the year if not the decade," said Zanu PF politburo member Jonathan Moyo, part of Zanu PF's delegation to the weekend summit.
"The idea that any serious media anywhere in the world, even in a banana republic, will claim that a politician has escaped death in absentia is ludicrous.
"Otherwise there is not even one idiot in the world who has been fooled by this MDC-T yarn and its intention. It's a very clumsy ploy based on discredited Rhodesian Selous Scout-tactics of either getting attention, or distracting attention, and in this case they are trying to do both.
"They are trying to distract attention from their rally which flopped last Saturday, and we know when they want attention they scour hospitals and mortuaries looking for injured people or dead ones to present them as victims of violence.
"Now you can add pseudo stories of petrol bombs thrown at empty houses as if people doing the alleged assassination don't know that it's an empty house and there is no-one there."
Moyo added: "It's the same pattern used before the Livingstone summit when they (MDC-T) cooked up a dossier full of green lies, and they used that dossier to mislead SADC leaders by claiming that there was harassment and intimidation against them; claiming that so-called securocrats had staged a coup and were now running the country, and the President was no longer in charge.
"SADC leaders now know that they were taken for a huge ride by Tsvangirai. You should therefore see the bombing yarn as an attempt to distract the attention of regional leaders from the lies they told before Livingstone in order to suggest there is something untoward going on in Zimbabwe, that the Minister of Finance is a target."
Zimbabwe Sadc summit will start on Saturday and Moyo said "There will be two groups in South Africa - one defending the nation and another attacking it, we will see which of these two groups wins."
Source - Byo24News
