Mujuru incinerated over U.S government and United Nations links (Part 1)

COLOGNE/ VANCOUVER/ HARARE - Vice President, Joice Mujuru and her purported faction backers political careers in Zanu PF and government are all but doomed, amid fresh intelligence supplied to President Robert Mugabe's office by a rival faction, implicating her and late husband, General Solomon Mujuru, in alleged clandestine links with the administrations of current U.S President Barack Obama, and his predecessor George Bush in a purported bid to secure Washington's support in unseating Mugabe, The Telescope News reported.

The rival faction in question is thought, to be aligned to militaristic justice minister, Emmerson Dambudzo Mnangagwa.

This publication can also reveal with good authority, that the party and any prospective government careers of Mujuru's reported inner circle, which includes: Presidential affairs minister, Didymus Mutasa; Zanu PF spokesman, Rugare Gumbo; Party national commissar, Webster Shamu; outspoken Mashonaland West provincial chairman, Temba Mliswa; Guruve North legislator and VP Mujuru's business associate, David Butau among others are being targeted for demotion and expulsion from the party, by the rival camp, which wants to regain full control of the party.

We also gathered this week, that another closet ally of Mujuru, Zanu PF chairman, Ambassador Simon Khaya-Moyo, had been spared the Sword of Damocles, after some prominent Matabeleland politicians, evoked the legacy of Father Zimbabwe, Dr Joshua Nkomo, with whom Khaya-Moyo had a close relationship, and had made those baying for Mujuru's blood revise their intention to deal with the former Zimbabwean diplomat to South Africa, and it seems to have worked. However, Khaya-Moyo ,might fail to secure the second Vice President slot, which he hitherto was almost assured of when the party meets for it's elective congress in December.

Mugabe himself, intelligence sources say, has been a factor insofar as opting clemency for Khaya-Moyo, who had in the past accompanied Mujuru for party functions, meetings and rallies across the country.

It is increasingly being speculated inside Zanu PF, that Mnangagwa could bag the first vice presidency, with the second VP slot going to Oppah Muchinguri, should First Lady, Grace Mugabe, decide to return the favour by campaigning for her, like she did for Mujuru in 2004. A new theory, also suggest that Muchinguri could opt to remain as, one of Zanu PF's second secretaries, after first secretary Mugabe and first second secretary (Mnangagwa), to pave way for Grace passage into a cabinet reshuffle, as a second Vice President to Mnangagwa, on the strength of backing from the influential Zanu PF Women's League.

Coming back to the epicenter, of the contentious issue at hand, well placed senior officials inside government, with close working relations with Zimbabwe's spy operatives, have leaked details of a report presented to Mugabe in August, by agents said to be sympathetic to Mnangagwa, which lists a cocktail of damning alleged corruption charges against Mujuru, and shock revelations that the late General Mujuru, had also roped in a United Nations agency, the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), which his River Ranch diamond mine in Beitbridge once had a business relationship, for suspected ‘influence peddling purposes' for the army general and his wife to court broader international backing, in forcing Mugabe out of power, the very moment VP Mujuru was promoted to the powerful post from a mere water resources minister in 2004.

River Ranch received assistance from a UNDP linked firm, Africa Management Services Company (AMSCO), between 2004 and 2007 and there were allegations that, UNDP vehicles might have been used to smuggle diamonds from the mine to South Africa.

UNDP media and advocacy chief, Boaz Paldi, reportedly told The Telescope News in e-mail communications, from the agency's New York head office on Monday, that the business relationship between UNDP and Mujuru's River Ranch diamond mine ended five years ago, and that UNDP and the whole United Nations system, provide development support to the country in an impartial and non-partisan manner.

Paldi dismissed allegations that, the UNDP and other UN agencies were warming up to a possible Mujuru presidency in Zimbabwe.

"The relationship between UNDP and River Ranch was through AMSCO. It must be noted that the AMSCO office in Zimbabwe was closed more than 5 year ago thus ending any UNDP relationship, direct or indirect, with River Ranch," said Paldi. "UNDP, and indeed the entire UN system, provide development support to the country in an impartial and non-partisan manner and do not interfere in the country's internal politics. This is a principle that the UN holds dear and is the very basis on which UNDP continues to enjoy a trusted relationship with national stakeholders and development partners."

In 2007, amid growing signs of social discontent, Mujuru was reported to have embarked on a charm offensive among foreign ambassadors in Harare, allegedly garnering their support, in what Mugabe claimed at the time to be "deals" with Britain and the Americans, which he said have never been friends of Zanu PF.

"The whole succession debate has given imperialism hope for re-entry," said Mugabe then. "Since when have the British, the Americans been friends of Zanu PF? Have we forgotten that imperialism can never mean well for our people?"