(TALKZIMBABWE) Eddie Cross disputes Tsvangirai over crash
Eddie Cross disputes Tsvangirai over crashFloyd Nkomo
Thu, 19 Mar 2009 05:20:00 +0000
THE Movement for Democratic Change party's policy coordinator has disputed Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai's statement that the accident that killed his wife was a genuine accident.
Speaking to the New York Times, Eddie Cross expressed concern that the crash had not been an accident, and said the MDC-T party will not accept a police report.
“This (accident) will certainly demand an independent investigation,” said Cross. “We won’t accept a police report.”
Cross's version of events is different from the one given by the eye-witnesses on the scene.
Cross said a left front tyre of the vehicle that was carrying the Prime Minister and his wife, Susan, had burst and part of the under-carriage was loose as a result of the accident.
He claims that he got this information from Deon Theron, the Vice President of the Commercial Farmers Union, "who lives near the scene" and who photographed the scene of the accident before the police arrived.
Theron has since been arrested for obstructing police officers during their duty. He is due to appear in court today. He is said to have climbed on top of the overturned vehicle to take photographs.
According to Prime Minister Tsvangirai the driver of his vehicle swerved to avoid the truck. But a trailer attached to the truck hit the Land Cruiser in which he was travelling, which rolled over three times.
Ian Makone, a secretary in the Prime Minister’s office, said he arrived at the crash scene about a half hour after the accident. He said one of the drivers in the convoy told him that an oncoming truck “had clipped the right rear fender of Morgan’s car.”
Questions have arisen as to how Theron would have known about the accident and why he had a camera handy to take footage.
There are also concerns about the ownership of the vehicle. Sources say the vehicle belonged to John Snow International (JSI) but was not being driven by a JSI driver at the time.
A confidential memo released by JSI says: “The vehicle involved in this accident was registered to USAid/Deliver (a JSI Project) although not driven by a JSI driver..."
JSI international runs USAid-funded programmes in the region.
Theron was the first white farmer convicted of defying an order to vacate a designated farming property under the Government's redistribution exercise.
He was given a suspended six-month prison sentence in March 2008 for violating the Land Act and one month to leave his farm and a six-month prison sentence.
Labels: ASSASSINATION, CAR ACCIDENTS, DEON THERON, EDDIE CROSS, MORGAN TSVANGIRAI
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