Pindula News
20th September 2019
Obert Gutu, the Vice President of opposition MDC led by Dr Thokozani Khuphe, which has recently alligned itself with President Mnangagwa, and is part of his POLAD, has said that former Education Minister, David Coltart has a case to answer over the disappearance of acting president of the Zimbabwe Hospital Doctors Association, Peter Magombeyi.
Gutu claimed that the disappearance of Magombeyi who went missing on Saturday 14 September and resurfaced on the 19th was stage-managed. Posting on Twitter, Gutu said:
The unrepentant racist & die-hard Rhodesian Selous Scout @DavidColtart has got a few questions to answer about the farcical, fanciful, fake & stage-managed ‘abduction’ of Dr. Peter Magombeyi.
His remarks come when there are people accusing the state of abducting and torturing citizens. On the other hand, the state has claimed that the alleged kidnappings were either being stage-managed or being conducted by a third force intending to tarnish the image of the government.
The deputy national spokesperson of the opposition MDC led by advocate Nelson Chamisa, however, dismissed the existence of a “3rd hand†theory saying it was the state.
There have been a series of kidnappings lately with members of the opposition MDC, human rights defenders and government critics being nicodemusly taken from their homes.
Some observers said that it was the state’s way of instilling fear in anyone with an opposing view.