{"id":23069,"date":"2020-05-12T16:16:20","date_gmt":"2020-05-12T14:16:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.com\/zimbabwe\/?p=23069"},"modified":"2020-05-12T16:16:20","modified_gmt":"2020-05-12T14:16:20","slug":"chamisa-claims-cio-plot-to-eliminate-chibaya","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/chamisa-claims-cio-plot-to-eliminate-chibaya","title":{"rendered":"Chamisa claims CIO plot to \u2018eliminate\u2019 Chibaya"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>HARARE \u2013 MDC Alliance leader Nelson Chamisa on Monday claimed the party\u2019s organising secretary Amos Chibaya had been targeted for \u201celimination\u201d a day after he was involved in a car accident near Zvishavane.<\/p>\n<p>Chamisa backed up claims by his party, first made on Sunday, that the crash had been deliberately caused by the driver of the other vehicle, identified as \u201cCentral Intelligence Organisation operative Norman Kujoka.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The MDC said the Mkoba MP was driving his parliamentary Ford Ranger to Zvishavane on private business \u201cwhen Kujoka, whose car was stationary on the same road, made a sudden U-turn in front of Honourable Chibaya and caused the crash.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Chibaya\u2019s Ford Ranger smashed into the driver\u2019s side door of the other vehicle, a GWM Steed pick-up truck. Both vehicles were extensively damaged.<\/p>\n<p>Chibaya and his passenger, the MDC\u2019s Mkoba district youth chair John Kuka, suffered minor injuries and were treated at Zvishavane District Hospital.<\/p>\n<p>The condition of the other driver identified as Kujoka could not be ascertained.<\/p>\n<p>Writing on Twitter Monday, Chamisa backed his party\u2019s account that the accident was an assassination attempt.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOld tactics, old habits,\u201d Chamisa said in an apparent reference to long standing suspicions that the CIO is used to eliminate the ruling Zanu PF party\u2019s political opponents.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey target and eliminate whom they fear most, they promote whom they fear least. Stand strong, God is in it,\u201d Chamisa added, while urging Chibaya to \u201cget well soon\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>HARARE \u2013 MDC Alliance leader Nelson Chamisa on Monday claimed the party\u2019s organising secretary Amos Chibaya had been targeted for \u201celimination\u201d a day after he was involved in a car accident near Zvishavane. 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