Exiled former Zimbabwean cabinet minister, Walter Mzembi has said vice president Constantino Chiwenga might not have planned the ouster of the late former president Robert Mugabe.
In a Twitter thread, Mzembi suggested that Chiwenga was deceived. Chiwenga was the army boss when Mugabe was removed from power in 2017 in a transition which many say was a military coup. Mzembi posted:
I don’t believe Chiwenga wanted Mugabe out per se, was deceived by the cunning Serpent to a point of no return. Observing his mannerisms as VP & aloofness from current mess I see a man with more Q than As, more regrets re dragging Army into this failure!
I was involved in bringing up two Security Ministers from RSA as FAM, the minutes of their meeting and the demands from then CDF Chiwenga do not reflect a burning desire to see Mugabe go. It was Mugabe himself who underplayed the crisis and the Mins flew bk
Hours later he asked if they could come back again, the situation had reached another level, but I read him the minutes of what he had said to the RSA Ministers on the phone, & we agreed to escalate issue to SADC Troika, I worked very hard with @DrTaxs
