War veterans leader Christoper Mutsvangwa has claimed that the military intervention by the Zimbabwe Defence Forces (ZDF) was actually a counter-coup to the coup that had been led by former first lady Grace Mugabe. Mutsvangwa made the claims at Sapes after Ibbo Mandaza had argued that the military had gone against the constitution which states that only the President had the power to order the military onto the streets.
Said Mutsvangwa:
The coup was carried out by Grace when her senior husband was losing his faculties and sleeping all the time.
She just uses a marriage certificate to get her cohorts at State House to start running this government. I saw it in cabinet, I told you.
So, I am not talking about some detached observation from somebody who was outside. I was in the politburo; I was in cabinet.
Grace, a mad woman with no brains, was in charge of the country on behalf of her cohorts and we are revolutionaries; we don’t carry out any coups.
We protect what the people want and that’s what we did and if there is anybody who has issues with that you try to form your own army.
Mandaza had said:
Section 202 (of the constitution) simply says the military shall not be partisan to any party; neither for or against any party.
Section 212 is more specific; it simply says only the commander-in-chief of the armed forces can order the military onto the streets.
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“Section 202 (of the constitution) simply says the military shall not be partisan to any party; neither for or against any party.
Section 212 is more specific; it simply says only the commander-in-chief of the armed forces can order the military onto the streets.”
It would be interesting to find out when these parts of the constitution where defined, not by Mugabe??