Who could have abducted Dzamara? don't rule out MDC-T

There is something fishy about this Itai Dzamara story. Who could have abducted him? Why would Zanu-PF wait until now to abduct him?

There are reports that on Saturday, he addressed MDC-T leader Morgan Tsvangirai's star rally in Harare and urged Zimbabweans to take to the streets to protest the Zanu-PF leader's misrule.

MDC-T national executives leaders including Morgan Tsvangirai and Job Sikhala were quick to warn that the incident could spark a revolution. Morgan Tsvangirai on Tuesday was quick to slammed the abduction by unknown attackers of a pro-democracy activist and said he held President Robert Mugabe and his government responsible and feared the worst.

Some of the players involved are well known attention seekers. Maybe before we conclude, we have to see if there is any international event that Mugabe is due to attend. We have seen all this nonsense happen whenever Mugabe is due to attend an international even or when America or EU are about to review sanctions.

Not ruling our that Mugabe machinery could have a hand in this 'unfortunate' I am bound not to rule out the MDC-T and Dzamara himself. Dzamara and the MDC-T are attention seekers and I bet my bottom dollar that they can stage manage anything just to get attention. Maybe as we speak Dzamara is drinking tea with Morgan Tsvangirai or Job Sikhala.

This story is not adding up, MDC-T linked blogs earlier reported that a body of a man thought to be abducted pro-democracy activist Itai Dzamara has been found near a Central Intelligence Organisation torture facility in Goromonzi, sources said.

The reports claimed that, according to witnesses, the body was found at Goromonzi turn-off, a few kilometres from the CIO base, on Tuesday morning.

It also claimed that police immediately cordoned off the area and confiscated camera/phones of passers-by but did not immediately identify the body. The witnesses said the dead man wore black shorts, a white and red shirt similar to those worn by Dzamara when he was kidnapped by five unknown assailants in Harare Monday.

Surely this should raise some curiosity and has to be probed.

Itai Dzamara, who had been publicly calling on Mugabe to step down, was abducted from a barber's shop in Glen View suburb on Monday and has not been heard from since.

Dzamara, 36, is also a journalist. His protests in central Harare calling on Mugabe to step down have been peaceful.

Dzamara's abductors were travelling in a white twin-cab with a "blurred" number plate, lawyers' group Zimbabwe Lawyers for Human Rights (ZLHR) said in a statement earlier.

Bystanders who saw the abduction said the men accused him of stealing a cow.

Since his abduction, Dzamara's phone has been switched off and he has not had any contact with his family.

The worst

Rumours have been circulating on social media and at least one news website that he has been found dead, but these have not been confirmed and no reliable source is cited.

Tsvangirai said he feared "the worst".

"This is a morbid message to Zimbabweans, to SADC, to Africa and the broader international community that the demon is back; that violence remains very much part of our political culture," the Movement for Democratic Change leader said.

ZLHR has filed an urgent court application "to compel whoever is holding Dzamara to bring him before the court so as to determine if he should really be in detention".

Dzamara was beaten unconscious by police in November 2014 during one of his protests in Harare's Africa Unity Square, near parliament. A rights lawyer who went to his defence was also assaulted.

Twitter user Chipo Matshe wrote Tuesday: "Please everyone make sure that #ItaiDzamara is found and brought back safely! Like the good #Zimbabwean civil servants we are!"

Journalist Kelvin Mupungu said: "Updates on #ItaiDzamara I just spoke to Pat Dzamara the brother, he said he still doesn't know. So let's pray - Matewu."