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Khaya Moyo dismisses NewsDay report
24 Apr 2013 at 03:37hrs | Views
Regime change proponents and their newspapers are now in disarray after realising that Zanu-PF is winning the forthcoming elections and are desperately creating stories meant to soil the image of Zanu-PF and its candidates, Zanu-PF national chairman Simon Khaya Moyo said yesterday.
This comes in the wake of a story that appeared in the NewsDay yesterday claiming that there were clashes at Mafuta Farm in Raffingora at the weekend pitting incumbent Zvimba North MP Dr Ignatius Chombo and his supposed challenger Edwin Matibiri.
It is claimed the skirmishes spilled over to the supporters from both "camps".
"This is a desperate story by a desperate journalist, published by an equally desperate newspaper. They are very sick . . . This is all hogwash. The regime change movement is now in disarray because they now realise that Zanu-PF is winning the forthcoming elections. This is totally fictitious," he said.
Khaya Moyo said the country should brace for more manufactured stories aimed at advancing the regime change agenda.
He said the journalism profession was being torn to shreds as no paper was published without a story on President Mugabe or Zanu-PF.
The clashes are said to have led to the arrest of Matibiri before he was eventually released, a development that the paper alleged led to intervention by Khaya Moyo who was the guest of honour at the function where clothes sourced by the National Chairman's Charity Fund were being handed over to villagers.
However, Matibiri dismissed the story, saying he was never arrested or detained, but a man came to him with policemen alleging that he (Matibiri) had insulted him and the matter was resolved amicably.
"A young man came with the police alleging that I had insulted him and the police said I should accompany them to Raffingora Police Station after the function, but it ended there," he said.
He said someone from NewsDay called and he refused to comment as he did not know them.
Officer Commanding police Mashonaland West province Senior Assistant Commissioner Rangarirai Mushaurwa has since dismissed the story, saying no report of that nature was ever received on the day.
"Nothing like that was ever reported to us as the police. There are people who want to just cause commotion by distorting facts. I have not received such a report from our officers who were on the ground on the day," she said.
Dr Chombo was not reachable on his mobile phone yesterday.
This comes in the wake of a story that appeared in the NewsDay yesterday claiming that there were clashes at Mafuta Farm in Raffingora at the weekend pitting incumbent Zvimba North MP Dr Ignatius Chombo and his supposed challenger Edwin Matibiri.
It is claimed the skirmishes spilled over to the supporters from both "camps".
"This is a desperate story by a desperate journalist, published by an equally desperate newspaper. They are very sick . . . This is all hogwash. The regime change movement is now in disarray because they now realise that Zanu-PF is winning the forthcoming elections. This is totally fictitious," he said.
Khaya Moyo said the country should brace for more manufactured stories aimed at advancing the regime change agenda.
He said the journalism profession was being torn to shreds as no paper was published without a story on President Mugabe or Zanu-PF.
However, Matibiri dismissed the story, saying he was never arrested or detained, but a man came to him with policemen alleging that he (Matibiri) had insulted him and the matter was resolved amicably.
"A young man came with the police alleging that I had insulted him and the police said I should accompany them to Raffingora Police Station after the function, but it ended there," he said.
He said someone from NewsDay called and he refused to comment as he did not know them.
Officer Commanding police Mashonaland West province Senior Assistant Commissioner Rangarirai Mushaurwa has since dismissed the story, saying no report of that nature was ever received on the day.
"Nothing like that was ever reported to us as the police. There are people who want to just cause commotion by distorting facts. I have not received such a report from our officers who were on the ground on the day," she said.
Dr Chombo was not reachable on his mobile phone yesterday.
Source - TH
