Dzamara investigators target Thabitha Khumalo

POLICE investigating the disappearance of journalists and democracy activist Itai Dzamara who disappeared last month are said to be now targeting Bulawayo East legislator Thabitha Khumalo.

According to media reports the police force accused of its links with Zanu-PF is under instruction to find a reason to divert the attention off the Dzamara search. The dented Central Intelligence Agency is also active in that plot, documents strongly suggest.

Reports said a police internal memo exposed to the media show that Thabitha Khumalo's name was  printed thereon as a focal point.

The letter dated the 3rd April 2015, states that Khumalo must be dealt with being also a former civil servant who is working against the ruling party.

Police officer at Harare Central Police station have reportedly admitted receiving a letter of request from a (Name not revealed) boss in the force to consider Khumalo as a "prime suspect".

"Bosses in Harare and Bulawayo are working to set up a joint investigation team to check on Thabitha Khumalo," a police officer is quoted as saying.

The incident comes short in the heels of whirlwind statements by Zanu-PF Energy Mutodi who claimed that Khumalo knows where Dzamara is.

Wrote Mutodi, "Police are being encouraged to immediately arrest Bulawayo East MDC-T Member of Parliament Thabita Khumalo so that she can assist them locate the destitute journalist. It is emerging Dzamara is trying to use this fake abduction to get an International Award like the one which was given to Jestina Mukoko and other sellouts who are on record. At the very least, he hopes to be given an asylum in UK where he hopes to land greener pastures. Muri kungozvionerawo mhuri ye Zimbabwe ndiwo mabasa e zvimbwasungata aya," wrote Mutodi shortly after Dzamara's disappearance last year.

There have been no leads so far as to where Dzamara is.