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Crime Reporter
Police have launched intensive investigations to find out what actually happened when Zanu PF youth chairman for Bumba District in Chimanimani Nicholas Madzianike was reportedly missing on June 19 and was found alive over the weekend.
Mr Madzianike who went missing on June 19, was found on Saturday and has been interviewed said National police spokesperson, Assistant Commissioner Paul Nyathi, confirmed the development.
“Investigations are in progress and they are several issues that need to be clarified and witnesses that also need to be located,” he said.
Following reports that Madzianike had gone missing Bumba Business Centre, police then launched investigations. Police have been on the ground gathering facts on what happened on that day.
So far, Chengetanai Musudu, Hakata Musudu and Aaron Chizemo, who were believed to be CCC members, were assisting police with investigations.
One of the suspects is alleged to have been found in possession of Madzianike’s Itel A52 cellphone.
Mr Madzianike’s kidnapping came a few days after police launched an investigation into the deaths of two ZANU PF officials from Nyatsime, on the outskirts of Chitungwiza.
Preliminary investigations revealed that the late former Manyame district chairperson, Cde Tina Gweshe, was poisoned after she attended a party, while Cde George Murambatsvina, the former Zanu PF chairman for Nyatsime, died from serious injuries and stress-related illness after an arson attack on his house by CCC supporters.
An internal CCC communication recently leaked to The Herald revealed that the opposition party was setting up a paramilitary wing within its party’s ranks ahead of the 2023 harmonised general elections.
The paramilitary wing is responsible for anti-democratic means including arson, violence and kidnapping of political opponents to grab political power.
It is known as the Citizens’ Defenders and is similar to the one that was conceptualised by the MDC called the Democratic Resistance Committees.
Those committees were set up in the early to mid-2000s, and were reportedly trained in weapon’s handling and acts of sabotage.
As recently as 2019, some opposition figures and civil society organisations’ representatives, were dispatched to the Maldives, where they were reportedly trained to stage mass uprisings by a Serbian national Srdja Popovic.
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