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Mujuru spying used state money
01 Apr 2015 at 16:24hrs | Views
Zanu-PF stepped up its surveillance of internal enemies ahead of the party's December 2014 congress so as to amass evidence against the faction led by Joice Mujuru, according to reliable sources.
The ruling party's machinations betray the thin line between Zanu-PF and state security agencies, which were used to buy gadgets to monitor those believed to be linked to Mujuru, says the source, which further revealed that CIO agents were sent to buy surveillance equipment from a South African dealer, Spytek, using money from the state instead of Zanu-PF.
Spytek describe themselves on their website as "Africa's leading surveillance and security equipment distributor" that provides world class hi-tech surveillance and intelligence equipment to retail customers, dealers and international government agencies.
Their equipment includes audio and visual surveillance gadgets, among them audio bugs, voice recorders, sound amplifiers, micro ear pieces, audio transmitters, bod- worn cameras, PC and cellphone surveillance equipment.
The source, a local businessman, met up with two with two Central Intelligence Organisation (CIO) operatives at Spytek in Midrand, South Africa in September who unwittingly revealed their mission.
"They were speaking in Shona and it seems not to have occurred to them one of the people at Spytek was a Zimbabwean who would understand the language that they used to converse with each other. They said they wanted to buy monitoring gadgets because Mujuru was planning to topple President Mugabe and they want to know who was involved. They revealed a lot of detail about their mission and said the surveillance was mostly aimed at the top guys," said the source.
The two agents bought an undisclosed number of special wrist watches and wall clocks to add to existing stocks and revealed that they had visited the place before to buy other gadgets.
Several high profile Zanu-PF figures, among them Didymus Mutasa and Rugare Gumbo, were reported to have been bugged – and had their personal conversations recorded. Mugabe alleged that Mujuru, who he removed as his deputy at the congress, used n'angas to try and topple him, but he has never explained how he obtained the information.
The ruling party's machinations betray the thin line between Zanu-PF and state security agencies, which were used to buy gadgets to monitor those believed to be linked to Mujuru, says the source, which further revealed that CIO agents were sent to buy surveillance equipment from a South African dealer, Spytek, using money from the state instead of Zanu-PF.
Spytek describe themselves on their website as "Africa's leading surveillance and security equipment distributor" that provides world class hi-tech surveillance and intelligence equipment to retail customers, dealers and international government agencies.
Their equipment includes audio and visual surveillance gadgets, among them audio bugs, voice recorders, sound amplifiers, micro ear pieces, audio transmitters, bod- worn cameras, PC and cellphone surveillance equipment.
The source, a local businessman, met up with two with two Central Intelligence Organisation (CIO) operatives at Spytek in Midrand, South Africa in September who unwittingly revealed their mission.
"They were speaking in Shona and it seems not to have occurred to them one of the people at Spytek was a Zimbabwean who would understand the language that they used to converse with each other. They said they wanted to buy monitoring gadgets because Mujuru was planning to topple President Mugabe and they want to know who was involved. They revealed a lot of detail about their mission and said the surveillance was mostly aimed at the top guys," said the source.
The two agents bought an undisclosed number of special wrist watches and wall clocks to add to existing stocks and revealed that they had visited the place before to buy other gadgets.
Several high profile Zanu-PF figures, among them Didymus Mutasa and Rugare Gumbo, were reported to have been bugged – and had their personal conversations recorded. Mugabe alleged that Mujuru, who he removed as his deputy at the congress, used n'angas to try and topple him, but he has never explained how he obtained the information.
Source - zimbabwean
