UNPLUGGED: Goche's assassination plot 'leaked'

Zimbabwe Sugar Milling Industry Workers Union secretary-general Admore Hwarare has revealed that under fire Zanu-PF Politburo member Nicholas Goche told him that there would be war at the upcoming Zanu PF Congress and that President Mugabe would be assassinated if he blocks vice president Mujuru's ascendancy.

He said it was also true that Goche took him aside at a function in Chiredzi and told him that there would be real war at the congress that would result in President Mugabe being shot by those aligned to a plot to oust him.

Hwarare said he was prepared to testify in court to expose the plot to assassinate President Mugabe some few days before next week's congress.

Hwarare said he met Goche on September 7 this year at Wild Ox Bar and at Muteri Lodge in Triangle, but said he would not refute the report by our the State Press because it was true.

Goche reportedly told the Politburo that he was not in Chiredzi on September 7.

"The issues which have been reported in the editions of The Herald and The Sunday Mail are true," Hwarare said.

"I'm not the one who brought the matter into the papers, but I was visited by some intelligence personnel whom I told what transpired at the meetings we had with Minister Goche.

"I can confirm meeting the Minister, but it is unfortunate that you now want to ask me about the matter after you've already written about it."

Goche opened up recently to Hwarare on the sidelines of meetings he held with the officials from the Zimbabwe Sugar Cane Milling Union that war was imminent in Zanu-PF as some people would be shot in the run-up to the congress.

Hwarare said he was visited by some intelligence officials last week at which he confidently unmasked the plot which was being crafted by Goche and his allies.

"The Minister brought with him some directors from the ministry, there were some people from the President's office and members of Parliament from Chiredzi," he said.

"Why would it be of interest for Hwarare to be the main respondent? What I know is what I said, I didn't add anything, I just told the intelligence personnel what I heard and listened to during the meeting."