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(TALKZIMBABWE) Biti bomb threat a fluke: analysts

Biti bomb threat a fluke: analysts
Posted by By Our reporter at 6 June, at 19 : 37 PM Print

POLITICAL analysts have laughed off the alleged bombing incident at MDC-T Secretary General, Tendai Biti’s residence as headline seeking antics and cheap politicking ahead of the June 11 SADC Summit in South Africa.

Amid all the hype created by the party and its private media partners, the little dent on Biti’s precast wall said to have been left by the bomb has been described by analysts as merely a little scene begging for attention before the Sadc Summit.

Biti last played the last stunt in July 2008, just before the September 2008 Sadc Summit when he allegedly received a used bullet cartridge in the post.

Since then, Biti has never received ant threats.

The news comes after Biti was criticised by President Mugabe for not supporting Zimbabwe’s communal farmers and standing in the way of increasing civil servants’ salaries.

Political analyst and diplomat, Ambassador Chris Mutsvangwa called on Zimbabweans to see beyond the coincidence between the bombing and the upcoming Sadc Summit.

Ambassador Mutsvangwa noted that just a few days after MDC-T supporters murdered a police officer in cold blood, the Western sponsored movement’s self inflicted bombing scare is a last minute attempt to court Sadc sympathy.

“This is a narcissist headline, an attempt by the MDC-T to play latter day revolutionaries cast in the Tunisian or Egyptian style smacking of recklessness,” Ambassador Mutsvangwa said.

Zimbabwe Lawyers for Justice National Coordinator, Advocate Martin Dinha called for an in depth investigation into the bombing claims, saying a party with no agenda to take to the regional summit will go to great lengths to cast itself as a victim of violence when in essence it is the perpetrator.

“The MDC-T has no agenda to take to the summit and they have chosen to cast themselves as violence victims,” Advocate Dinha said.

Sources in the MDC-T said Biti is planning a stage managed escape from the country on the pretext that his life is under threat.

A visit to the MDC-T Secretary General’s house showed a disappointing work of amateurs, far from what can be described as a life threatening attempt.

Police say they are still investigating the case, which was reported 17 hours late.

The MDC-T has a culture of documented violence involving petrol bombs.

Besides attacking Marimba Police Station, Harare Central Police, CID Headquarters at Morris Depot and Zanu PF Mbare offices, the party has an ugly history of intra-party fighting, which saw the bombing of Fidelis Mhashu and Job Sikhala’s residences a few years ago.

Labels: CHRIS MUTSVANGA, MDC, NEOCOLONIALISM, NEOLIBERALISM, POLITICAL VIOLENCE, SADC, TENDAI BITI

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