MDC-T Youth Leader Happymore Bvondo Chidziva abduction foiled

This report is from an MDC-T activist, we have not verified its authenticity. The report has been independently written by a member of Bulawayo24's community who is also an MDC-T activist.

As if the abduction and kidnapping of Itai Dzamara is not enough, the regime is at it again.

Yesterday around 1800hs in the evening, at a Total garage - a stone's through from Zanu PF national Headquarters there was an attempted abduction and kidnapping of the MDC T National Chairman Happymore "Bvondo" Chidziva.

Whilst filling up at the garage, Bvondo was with his driver and aide in a branded MDC T vehicle when  a blue VW golf registration number ACA3738 pulled up with five menacingly armed soldiers who tried to abduct him trying to force him into their vehicle.

An altercation ensued which resulted in Bvondo sustaining multiple injuries to his body for which he received treatment at a private health facility in the capital.

Speaking through pain, Bvondo reiterated his commitment to the struggle for a new Zimbabwe, "Mugabe is simply trying to start an uprising. Why are innocent and law abiding citizens being provoked? The soldiers simply attacked me for driving a branded vehicle and they hauled the imprintables about President Tsvangirai. I appeal for calm and peace amongst the Youths as we will soon bring the dictatorship to its knees through peaceful and democratic mechanisms."

MDC T Harare Province Youth Assembly Chairman Gorekore and his executive attended the scene where the attempted kidnapping of Chairman Bvondo happened. Addressing journalists, Harare Youth Spokesperson narrated the ordeal the movement and the assembly in particular is operating under, "We are under siege as the MDC T Youths. Our Youths are being brutalised on a daily basis. Since we held our star rally in Highfield, the regime is a state of panic, Dzamara was abducted, today the y wanted to assassinate Chairman Chidziva - Kambuzuma, St Mary's - the violence is just too much."

The MDC T Youth Assembly is on high alert; it seems the systematic , state sponsored and managed assassination plots against its leaders are now in full swing.

Brian Dube the National Youth Spokesperson has since released a statement bemoaning and condemning the uncivil and unstatemanlike behaviour of Mugabe and Mnangagwa.

The leaders of the Youth Assembly across Zimbabwe have expressed shock at the cowardly regime that now seems determined to exterminate influential members of the Assembly. Sekai "Mchaina" Marashe, the Midlands North Youth Chairperson had hard words for Mnangagwa whom she is sure is being these diabolical abductions and assassination plots, "Bvondo has done much for the Midlands and he led the emancipation of Kwekwe. Mnangagwa was left with an egg on the face hence he is now resorting to these brutal and cowardly gimmicks to silence our leader. Bvondo has over five million youths under his command and truly we will not fold our hands as the merchants of evil attempt to decimate the democratic brigade."

In Matabeleland South, Youth Chairperson spoke from Matobo Tshatshani where the Youth Assembly is fighting on the side of the villagers who are in the process of being evicted by a CIO operative, Machemedze. "We are overwhelmed by the decaying and collapsing economic, social, political and judicial infrastructure in our beloved Zimbabwe. As I speak I am surrounded by villagers who are being made homeless by one settler who deems himself super - human and above mortal laws. A few days ago, we were entangled and busy with the villagers whose livelihood were disturbed and destroyed in a similar manner by agents of the same evil at Maleme. As the Youth Assembly, we remain grounded within the people and we are optimistic that President Tsvangirai will without fail unshackle our country from this rotten governance culture. The attack on Chairman Bvondo gives us the resolve to continue fighting. We give glory to God who failed the assassination plot.

There seems to be a spirited and highly mechanised and funded attempt to abduct and assassinate leading members of the MDC Tsvangirai especially the Youth Assembly. Popularity ranking for Dr. Morgan Tsvangirai has peaked and Mugabe and his cronies seem to have resorted to violence in a bid to cow Zimbabweans into submission.