Alex Tawanda Magaisa, the former Chief of Staff in the office of the former late Prime Minister of Zimbabwe Morgan Tsvangirai has said the government is likely denying the reports of a plot to oust President Mnangagwa because the coup de tat was indeed or is still in motion.
Magaisa speaks after the Minister of Home Affairs, Kazembe Kazembe and the Joint Operations Command (JOC) on Wednesday dismissed reports which suggest that there is a plot to dislodge president Mnangagwa from power.
Responding to the government’s statement, Magaisa who is also a law lecturer in the United Kingdom said:
One theory is that the statement is an admission that there is or was a coup brewing. Observant Zimbabweans who are used to their government’s ways say whenever it denies something, it’s usually because it’s true. This, they have learnt from experience. If they are denying something, it’s because they want to cover up. Why, many have asked, would the national security agency come out to deny rumours of a coup, especially when the claim that the rumour is “widespread” is patently false?
He added that many Zimbabweans claim that they had not heard of the rumour until the government issued the statement denying its existence and now they find it hard to believe the government since it previously dismissed as false some reports which later turned out to be true.
Magaisa also said another theory to explain the dismissal of the reports is that Mnangagwa administration is manufacturing rumours of a coup to deceive enemies.
He also suggested that the government intends to use the rumours for the purpose of creating justification of a clampdown on the opposition as what happened during the Matebeleland and Midlands massacres of the 1980s known as Gukurahundi.
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But seriously, do we expect a sitting government to acknowledge a brewing coup!? I am a good “disciple” of the Biblical Thomas – I will believe the coup story when it has been executed, otherwise all this talk is nonsense! I wonder what Dr Magaisa was advising the late Morgan Tsvangirai on.
Ed should really be held in detention by the world court of justice for implimenting china backed tribal genocide against his black brothers for money power and greed he is worse than any colonialist