Zanu-PF Recalls Mohadi in JOMIC, replaces him with Professor Jonathan Moyo

HARARE - ZANU PF has re-called co-Home Affairs Minister Kembo Mohadi from the Joint Monitoring and Implementation Committee (JOMIC) allegedly because he is 'too weak" and has made a lot of "unstrategic concessions to the opposition MDC formations" that have prejudiced the party, we exclusively reveal.

The re-calling was endorsed by the party's highest decision making body the Politburo after cries from the former ruling party's hardliners who believe that the ageing Mohadi has done 'little if any" besides "blundering" at JOMIC, a politburo source said.

The source added that the acerbic robotics, Professor Jonathan Moyo who is also Tsholotsho North legislator was nominated and unanimously seconded as a replacement for Mohadi because he is able and has capacity to "handle" some strategic matters.

JOMIC is an organ created by the Global Political Agreement specifically to monitor the implementation of the agreed terms of the GPA which gave birth to the Government of National Unity.

The Committee consists of six members who are negotiators of the GPA and they are Patrick Chinamasa and Nicholas Goche of Zanu-PF, Tendai Biti and Elton Mangoma of MDC-T and Priscilla Musiyahurambwi-Mushonga and Qhubani Moyo representing MDC.

"The Politburo nominated Prof Moyo because he is a consistent party cadre who knows where we comes from, what we stand for and has capacity to handle serious strategic matters.

"Cde Mohadi has not been effective in defending the party position and thus we agreed as a party to put fresh brains in the whole thing,' said the source.

Zanu-PF spokesperson Rugare Gumbo could neither confirm nor deny this development when contacted for comment yesterday.

He said: "As a party we have a right to deploy and change our deployment as and when it is necessary. You cannot therefore allege incompetence on the part of who we chose to deploy or re-deploy."

Prof Moyo has been writing lengthy articles in the press mainly the state-run Sunday Mail where he has defended his party, attacked it subtlety, attacked private press and journalists, attacked regional bodies like SADC as a strategy of winning back "faith" from Zanu PF hardliners who believe he is in a mission to "oust Robert Mugabe from within.'

He, unlike his predecessor is a career politician and academic who has served Zanu-PF well as a Minister of State Information and Publicity in the President's Office and Cabinet.

MDC formations dismissed the planting of Prof Moyo at JOMIC as "another non-event."

Doglous Mwonzora of MDC T said: "What's new that he can do? He won't run JOMIC, nothing will change."

Whereas the spokesperson of the MDC formation led by Professor Welshman Ncube said: "Whilst there is nothing Prof Moyo has to offer besides raving and ranting as usual, his planting in JOMIC is symbolic of Zanu-PF's panicking and shameful attempts to give him (Prof Moyo) after a job, maybe to keep him away from scribing more exposing Zanu PF introspections in the Sunday Mail," said Dube.

Prof Moyo and the ousted Mohadi could not be reached for comment.