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Nduduzo Tshuma in Harare
SENIOR Zanu-PF members who plotted against President Robert Mugabe will not be persecuted if they repent as the party needs to heal after the Congress.Presenting a report on the state of the party at the party’s Sixth National People’s Congress that ends here today, Zanu-PF politburo member, who is also the Speaker of the National Assembly, Cde Jacob Mudenda yesterday said the congress had put a decisive end to the treacherous plot to unseat President Mugabe by Vice-President Joice Mujuru and members of her faction.
The report is normally presented by the party’s national commissar Cde Webster Shamu, who was present when Cde Mudenda made the presentation.
Cde Mudenda said after the Congress, it is time to heal and reconcile and those who repent must not be persecuted.
“Factionalism, starting from this Congress, should never again find its way into the vocabulary and practices of this revolutionary party. What’s been done is done,” he said.
“The next few days, months even, must be a time to heal and reconcile. Those who repent and are remorseful mustn’t be persecuted, but we must embrace and gently mentor them back into rectitude.”
Cde Mudenda said secretary for administration Cde Didymus Mutasa appointed himself as Mujuru’s second-in-command creating a state of near paralysis in the party.
From 2009, he added, the plotters systematically usurped power from the centre by rigging and manipulating internal elective processes from the national level to the cells, filling them with people either bought with money or indoctrinated to support their cause.
He said the party’s abolition of district co-ordinating committees in 2012 failed to stop the plotters as they orchestrated sham primary elections ahead of the 2013 elections resulting in their domination of both the National Assembly and the Senate and consequently Cabinet.
“Sadly however, towards the end of this review period particularly in the year leading to this 6th National People’s Congress, the party unearthed and thwarted a plot which had external underpinnings to remove the President and First Secretary of the party unconstitutionally, before or during this congress,” said Cde Mudenda.
“This plot involved some amongst us, under the leadership of then Vice President Joice Teurai Ropa Mujuru and her cabal of senior politburo members, who had been enticed by the Americans and some Europeans with promises that they would pour billions of dollars into Zimbabwe once they succeeded in allying with the opposition formations to oust Zanu-PF and its iconic President and First Secretary from power. The 6th National People’s Congress has, however, effectively put a decisive end to this treacherous and treasonous plot.”
He said the Bhora Mugedhi- Ibhola Egedini slogan for the 2013 elections was meant to rally the electorate to vote for Zanu-PF and President Mugabe as a counter to the 2008 counter revolutionary Bhora Musango that humiliated the party.
“Suffice to note that the same people who were exposed in Wikileaks reports as hobnobbing and having secret teas with American spies were behind this Bhora Musango campaign of 2008 but His Excellency, the President and First Secretary of the party forgave them in the hope that they would show remorse, change their ways and be one with the rest of us in the party,” said Cde Mudenda.
“But alas, they instead deepened their plotting, captured party and state structures through imposition, vote buying, patronage, corruption and all sorts of treacherous intrigue to a point where they felt sufficiently ready to oust the President at this 6th National People’s Congress, even threatening to assassinate him.”
Cde Mudenda said VP Mujuru and her gang cooked party district and provincial elections, brazenly removing incumbents and imposing their own people where other forms of intrigue would have failed.
Online Reporter