SHARP SHOOTER: Why Itai Dzamara is ‘missing’

To escape a crippling economic environment that had been perpetrated by the MDC-T and its Rhodesian backers and therefore Itai had to leave home to live somewhere else under a new identity to run-away from self-inflicted economic domestic abuse.

By Vukani Madoda

Itai Dzamara is “missing” because the MDC-T and its western allies have said he is missing. There is no other logical reason to infer why he would be abducted and go missing yet there are several enemies of the State, who have hurt the nation so much with their call for illegal sanctions and other unnecessary opposition mantra, who should have been missing a long time ago in the unlikely event that the State would ever consider abduction without due process of the law.

No one has ever considered that maybe Itai needed to lie low or simply wanted to be left alone and therefore considered complete voluntary disappearance.

Twenty first century technology makes completely vanishing a virtual impossibility meaning that Dzamara is alive and well somewhere. With enough diligence and care, as the police investigations have revealed, it is possible that Itai vanished after carefully erasing any tracks that could make him be found and there is no reason not to postulate that he has by now created a new identity for himself.

The well-orchestrated evidence that he has left points to a plan that would leave the conclusion that he was abducted by unknown persons and is therefore missing. He seems to have skilfully mastered the book ‘How to Disappear Completely and Never Be Found’ by Doug Richmond, originally released in 1985, which is a how-to guide on starting a new identity. It includes chapters on planning a disappearance, arranging for new identification, finding work, establishing credit, pseudocide (i.e. creating the impression you’re dead), and more. The book recommends a method of disappearing by assuming the identity of a dead person with similar vital statistics and age, and also includes a section on avoiding trails that may establish the perpetrators’ existence.

The police investigations have revealed that there was once an incident amongst those pathetic activists of the Occupy Africa Unity Square sorry campaign that involved the misappropriation of a measly US$200 donation from their miserable regime change backers which clearly shows that the opposition outfit was in financial dire straits.

I was instantly reminded of John Stonehouse, a British politician who wanted to escape financial difficulties and faked his own death of suicide by drowning.

Nevertheless, he was discovered in Australia living with his mistress and was jailed. Australian police initially thought he could be Lord Lucan.

Alan Kirk Wolford, an American funeral home director also forged his own death certificate to evade significant debts.

Another fraudster, Samuel Israel III, an American hedge fund manager who was facing twenty years in prison for fraud, left his car and a suicide note on the Bear Mountain Bridge in an attempted fake suicide in 2008.

He later surrendered himself to authorities. It was always suspected that his suicide was faked since, among other things, passers-by reported that a car had picked someone up on the bridge from near Israel’s abandoned car.

Perhaps in striking resemblance to Itai Dzamara’s case, an eccentric rabble-rouser called “Lord” Timothy Dexter, who was an 18th-century New England businessman faked his own death to see how people would react.

His wife did not shed any tears at the wake, and as a result he caned her for not being sufficiently saddened at his passing. Given this brief history, Shefra Dzamara must be more dramatic in her mourning to avert impending domestic violence.

With the history of “missing” persons who are not actually missing, Itai could have had any one of the following reasons for his voluntary disappearance:

To become a victim of kidnapping and abduction in order to gain sympathy for his lost cause of Occupy Africa Unity Square.

To accuse Zanu PF of seizure by Government officials without due process of law in order to sway protest votes in favour of the MDC-T whose dwindling support base has become a cause for concern in the opposition stable given that only a handful of less than 10 low-lives sat idly together with Itai in Africa Unity Square, masquerading as a protest for President Mugabe to step down.

To take advantage of better employment or living conditions elsewhere using his professionalism as a journalist or his ingenuity of sitting in a recreational park waiting for donations and handouts from sympathisers and well-wishers.

To move to a remote location or under an assumed name in order to spare his family, his party and the Western apologists the embarrassment of a failed Occupy Africa Unity Square campaign and allow his voluntary disappearance to be eventually declared as a death in absentia.

Perhaps he was suffering from some acute mental illness or other ailments such as Alzheimer’s Disease which can cause someone to become lost or they may not know how to identify themselves due to long-term memory loss that causes them to forget where they live, the identity of party members, family members or relatives, or their own names. This very plausible cause could also be the reason why a full grown man would embark on a lone protest to remove a constitutionally elected President by sitting on his laurels in Africa Unity Square.

To avoid discovery of a crime he may have committed which was about to come to light and to escape apprehension by law-enforcement authorities for that very crime.

In this day and age of a prosperity gospel that has spread like wild fire on a windy day, he may have joined a cult, a sect or some such other religious organisation that promised him salvation and riches if he abandoned his family, his party and his flimsy Occupy Africa Unity Square cause.

Maybe he wanted to avoid imaginary persecution and an imaginary genocide that would target misfits of his ambition.

Given that the rains did not do well last season, he may have imagined that an impending famine would follow that natural disaster, so to keep his belly satisfied he would find solace elsewhere.

Surely there are very many, many possible reasons why Itai Dzamara is not in the public face or arena but to claim that he is missing as a result of being abducted by Government officials is a far-fetched allegation peddled by a whole French envoy and his full-blown boot-lickers who are shamelessly scrounging for a quick buck by supporting him.

Wherever he is, Itai Dzamara should stop playing mind games so that newspapers may get on with their core business and allocate space for news and advertising without a nagging conscience to look for an overzealous opposition activist that ran amok.

Dubulaizitha!