Covering footsteps of Dzamara's abductors

This is a response to, Political opportunists feasting on Dzamara,  published by the The Herald March 24, 2015 by Benny Tsododo.

Didymus Mutasa said in one interview, "Mnangagwa is very good at covering his footsteps." If Mnangagwa knows where Itai Dzamara is, we don't expect him to say it loud in parliament. He of course, as he did, would publicly condemn the act and probably feign some outrage. The original meaning of hypocrite is a mask. So hypocrite is someone who does wear his real face. There are many reasons why one would wear a mask. If one is going to kill, steal or to spy there may be need to clad one for obvious reasons. Clowns wear hypocrites to amuse people.

Benny Tsododo says in his article, "Opposition political groups have pounced on Dzamara's misfortune to score cheap political points and revive their moribund political entities". The Herald should not expect civil society and opposition leaders to remain silent when citizens are abducted in broad daylight by government security agents. We know the Herald is Zanu-PF government's propaganda machine and here it is ridiculing efforts by all who care to have Itayi Dzamara released by a government purporting to be acting on behalf of the people of Zimbabwe. It seems here the Herald is making frantic efforts to cover the footsteps of the abductors.

The Herald, by way of a Benny Tsododo, further says, "Without allowing Government the opportunity to investigate the alleged abduction, opposition groups and civil society organizations colluded to impetuously accuse State security agents of being responsible for the alleged abduction."

For the record, we never expect the same government that abducted Itayi Dzamara to earnestly search for him. What we have is efforts by a VP and the Herald to hoodwink people into thinking that the government is doing something though it may actually be doing nothing. In my opinion the government and the Herald are only buying time through these statements, to make people forget and carry on. Tsvangirayi and other members of the civic society can justly make such inferences, having themselves in the past been abducted under near identical circumstances. Neither the Herald nor its boss, the Zanu-PF government should therefore not cry foul for such extrapolations given the Zanu-PF's behavior and tendencies in not so distant past, and throughout Zanu-PF's history since 1979. These conjectures cannot therefore be far from being true.

Having been ordered from reluctance by the High Court, the Minister of Home Affairs, CIO Director-General and the Zimbabwe Republic Police Commissioner-General to do all things necessary to determine his (Dzamara's) whereabouts including advertising within 12 hours of the granting of the order on all State media outlets including radio and television, the action on the part of these entities is still lacking. Perhaps, if you know where something is, how can one endeavor to search for it?

Should the government know where to start and end with their investigations into finding Itayi's whereabouts, we urge them not to waste efforts, funds and further prolong Dzamara's family misery: by going to search where they know he is not. The government should be sincere in its efforts to find Dzamara. If the Zanu-PF led government is holding Dzamara somewhere, and all this time had been pretending that they don't have him, it will be difficult but not impossible for them to present him now. But if his family will not have Dzamara back, we will nevertheless continue to hold the Zanu-PF led government liable for his disappearance, notwithstanding whether Mnangagwa, the Herald or The Sunday Mail says anything contrary or pretends to feel very sorry.

The Herald, The Sunday Mail and ZTV are exclusively being used as instruments of oppression and propaganda diffusion by the Zany-PF government.

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Zanda Shumba
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