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'Regime change agenda real,' says Mugabe's nephew
16 Oct 2014 at 02:10hrs | Views
The regime change agenda by the western countries is real and cannot be wished away, and will easily be effected if agents of countries harbouring those plans are allowed to penetrate deeper into the country, Zanu-PF politburo member Patrick Zhuwawo has said.
Zhuwawo, who was the guest speaker at the Bulawayo Press Club on Tuesday evening, also said Zanu-PF was a unique movement which fought from "bush to office", and could not be compared to other global liberation movements.
Responding to questions from journalists, Zhuwawo made reference to the late deposed leader of Libya, Colonel Muammar Gadaffi, who he said befriended the West although they had never forgiven him for the Lockerbie Disaster which he later ultimately paid for with his life.
The Lockerbie disaster is in reference to a transatlantic flight from Frankfurt to Detroit via London and New York that was destroyed by a terrorist bomb on Wednesday December 21 1988, killing all 243 passengers and the 16 flight crew on board. Large sections of the aircraft crashed into Lockerbie, Scotland, killing 11 more people on the ground.
In 2003, Gaddafi accepted responsibility for the Lockerbie bombing and paid compensation to the families of the victims, although he maintained that he had never given the order for the attack.
"After befriending them, they came into Libya and were able to mingle with the Libyans and eventually they toppled him and killed him using his own people," he said, in apparent reference to some Zanu-PF parliamentarians accused of "going to bed" with the enemy by accepting money from the Americans.
Zhuwawo said although the US was a powerful country, it would need the locals to effect a regime change in any country.
"We cannot wish away their regime change agenda, its real; and allowing them amongst us will make it possible," he said.
Zhuwawo, who was the guest speaker at the Bulawayo Press Club on Tuesday evening, also said Zanu-PF was a unique movement which fought from "bush to office", and could not be compared to other global liberation movements.
Responding to questions from journalists, Zhuwawo made reference to the late deposed leader of Libya, Colonel Muammar Gadaffi, who he said befriended the West although they had never forgiven him for the Lockerbie Disaster which he later ultimately paid for with his life.
The Lockerbie disaster is in reference to a transatlantic flight from Frankfurt to Detroit via London and New York that was destroyed by a terrorist bomb on Wednesday December 21 1988, killing all 243 passengers and the 16 flight crew on board. Large sections of the aircraft crashed into Lockerbie, Scotland, killing 11 more people on the ground.
"After befriending them, they came into Libya and were able to mingle with the Libyans and eventually they toppled him and killed him using his own people," he said, in apparent reference to some Zanu-PF parliamentarians accused of "going to bed" with the enemy by accepting money from the Americans.
Zhuwawo said although the US was a powerful country, it would need the locals to effect a regime change in any country.
"We cannot wish away their regime change agenda, its real; and allowing them amongst us will make it possible," he said.
Source - Zim Mail
