Accusations have been laid against Welfare Services for War Veterans, Collaborators and Ex-Detainees Minister, Colonel (Retired) Tshinga Dube for taking part in the crafting of the plot by war veterans to dispose of President Mugabe as their party leader.
Rtd Col Dube had invited war veterans for a meeting on the same day that war vets issued a “communiqué” stripping Mugabe of their support, insinuating that the minister knew of the existence of the communiqué before it became public.
ZNLWVA elder George Mlala revealed to a local publication that he was invited by an official from Rtd Col Dube’s office on July 18, 2016 for the July 21 meeting. However, the same official then phoned Mlala on the evening of July 20, 2016 advising him that the meeting had been cancelled.
The minister, in defence claims he did not know of the meeting convened by ZNLWVA secretary-general Victor Matemadanda.
“We didn’t know about the Raylton Club meeting; we only read about it in the Press. I have explained this to Mlala but he doesn’t want to understand. We had called for two meetings — one for war veterans and another for collaborators but we cancelled the one for war veterans; it was our own decision. The war collaborators meeting was a preparatory one for an indaba with the President,” said Rtd Col Dube.
But Mlala claimed he raised his allegations against the minister in a meeting last Thursday at Zanu-PF headquarters with President Mugabe and Dube, Sydney Sekeramai (Zanu-PF Secretary for War Veterans), Ignatius Chombo (part Secretary for Administration), Mandi Chimene, Joseph Chinotimba and Patrick Nyaruwata.
Mlala said he challenged Rtd Cold Dube to explain the agenda of the meeting that he then cancelled.
“Up to now Dube has failed to explain if the meeting which they had invited us was different with the one which was held at Raylton Club. What was the agenda of Dube’s meeting and why did he cancel it? …
“I raised all these issues even when the President was there, so that we expose the root of the problem we are dealing with now. If Dube had not called for the July 21 meeting, maybe the communiqué would not have been read,” charged Mlala.
- Sunday Mail
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