Mutasa hailed for reveling that Mugabe cheated in 2008 elections

Former Zanu PF secretary for administration Didymas Mutasa has been hailed for exposing that his long friend President Robert Mugabe rigged the 2008 elections in order to remain in power though some sections of the society say he was rather too late in doing so after  damage has been made.

 Bornfree Kurauone said Mutasa was just confirming what is in the public domain.

"We are being governed by an illegitimate administration," he said.

"That is why we are saying the former vice president Joice Mujuru and her colleagues should  concentrate on farming and leave our political space for good, they have done enough damage."

But Togara Dziro differed saying there is absolutely nothing that has been confirmed here.

"It is clearly written that MDC T won 'narrowly' and nowhere is it written that Zanu PF cheated," he said.

Chisvika Chimurenga said Mutasa should reveal more.

"He is afraid of revealing much," he said.

"I think he needs certain securities to do so.However he is only scratching the top...more details and content is coming."

Admore Mamombe said,  "We need Mutasa more than anyone from People first ,I wish his security can be beefed up because we want more revelations from him. I urge human rights lawyers to engage him so that they will gather all that is needed to be known by the people of Zimbabwe."

Brian Berias Trust Mari said  Mutasa has value and if we could embrace him we can win our goal.

Dziro said the irony of it all is that Mutasa is the only heavyweight that won 'cheated' elections.

"Mutasa can't even protect himself and how did he protect the President in 2008?" he said.

Francis Kambela Ncube demanded  more revelations from Mutasa saying MDC-T leader Morgan Tsvangirai wasted an opportunity by fleeing to Botswana.

Mutasa last week said he and other Zanu-PF officials were shocked after  Tsvangirai's MDC won the 2008 elections – so shocked that he had rushed to protect Mugabe at his official residence.

He said his former party cheated in those elections.

Mutasa, now out in the cold after being axed from the ruling party for siding with ousted vice-president Joice Mujuru, said he and others in Zanu-PF were "absolutely shocked" when the parliamentary election results were released in 2008. The MDC won narrowly.

"I immediately drove, at speed and alone, from my home in Rusape, to State House in Harare. I was terrified, I had to go and protect the president from harm as we were frightened Tsvangirai would do what he said he would do and march to State House. If he had, no policeman would have stopped him."Instead," Mutasa laughed, "Tsvangirai went to Botswana."

In those elections Mutasa was the only Zanu-PF senior to retain his parliamentary seat in the eastern Manicaland province."

 Tsvangirai, who easily beat Mugabe in the first round of the presidential poll, pulled out before the second round because hundreds of his supporters had been killed."I don't know how much cheating there was in elections, but I do know that in 2013 (finance minister) Patrick Chinamasa cheated to win.

He bussed people in (to vote for him.) I protested to him and to the Zimbabwe Election Commission.
"We will never know how many people voted for Zanu-PF out of fear. I didn't know there was fear in those days. I now see it myself. And there is a lot of fear. And I must say, again, I am very, very sorry. That I must stand up to be counted."
Mutasa was among Zimbabwe's most feared men, particularly when he was minister in charge of the Central Intelligence Organisation (CIO).

He said he regularly chaired the informal but powerful Joint Operation Command, a structure of top security personnel that meets once a week.

"We discussed many things, such as violence. How to stop it. If food was short we talked about how to find it, usually from South Africa" he said.

"The joint command did produce top- secret documents every week.

"Secrecy still binds me, from when I was minister. But of course you know that some waiters in hotels work for the CIO. Your phones are listened to a lot. The CIO is huge.

"It produces many reports. From the UN there will regularly be a report. A report about the British. Or India. Not very good reports really. I had to read them. They made me tired."
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