{"id":41166,"date":"2021-05-30T20:22:54","date_gmt":"2021-05-30T18:22:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/?p=41166"},"modified":"2021-05-30T19:30:16","modified_gmt":"2021-05-30T17:30:16","slug":"mdc-alliance-top-official-living-in-fear-after-foiled-abduction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/mdc-alliance-top-official-living-in-fear-after-foiled-abduction","title":{"rendered":"MDC Alliance Top Official Living In Fear After Foiled Abduction"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/\">Africa-Press<\/a> &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\">Zimbabwe<\/a>. <\/strong><\/span><b>By James Muonwa, Mashonaland West Correspondent<\/b> &#8211; MDC Alliance Mashonaland West provincial secretary, Tawanda Bvumo says he is now living in fear following an attempted abduction incident by three unknown men in Chegutu on Tuesday night.<\/p>\n<p>A perennial campaigner in Chegutu East constituency, Bvumo claims Zanu PF elements were behind the failed bid to kidnap him for his opposition political activism that is unsettling the ruling elite.<\/p>\n<p>MDC Alliance has made significant inroads in Chegutu East and West constituencies which are former ruling party strongholds, Bvumo said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThese were clearly hitmen sent on an abduction and extermination mission. I blame the state apparatus for this futile attempt to silence dissent and scuttle the sterling work we are doing in Chegutu West to remove Zanu PF hegemony.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe work of rebuilding MDC Alliance has angered Zanu PF which is now monitoring our activities and movements. They want to make sure l am killed. I am living in fear since then,\u201d Bvumo said.<\/p>\n<p>Narrating his ordeal to NewZimbabwe.com Thursday, Bvumo, a businessman, said on Tuesday night around 8:30pm he was driving his Mercedes Benz E240 while alone from Chegutu to Chinhoyi when suddenly two speeding vehicles, a black Toyota Vigo double-cab and a silver Toyota RunX, overtook him after Musengezi turn-off.<\/p>\n<p>Both cars suspiciously did not have registration number plates.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAfter overtaking me and having driven for about five kilometres, the cars reduced speed all of a sudden. I overtook them, but immediately after doing that, the cars overtook me yet again which then heightened my suspicion.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAfter a short distance, l saw the two vehicles parked at a layby with the three stalkers waiting by the roadside as if they were hitch-hiking. I didn\u2019t stop but l managed to identify them by their clothes,\u201d said the close ally of MDC Alliance deputy president, Tendai Biti.<\/p>\n<p>Further explained Bvumo, \u201cAfter driving for about two kilometres, the cars overtook me yet again but suddenly reduced speed that l almost rammed into the Toyota RunX, swerved to the right and sped for about 10 or so kilometres.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI hit a pothole and my car\u2019s left rear tyre burst on impact but l kept going for about five kilometres until the tyre was completely shredded forcing me to stop.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Toyota RunX emerged and parked right in front of my car but l quickly opened my door and fled into the tall grass before occupants of the trailing vehicles came out of their cars.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Bvumo said he fled into the darkness before hiding in a bush and could hear the trio talking from a distance.<\/p>\n<p>The senior MDC Alliance official said he called party security personnel who came to rescue him hours later.<\/p>\n<p>Bvumo\u2019s Mercedes Benz E240 and other property in the vehicle were found intact, further raising suspicion on the motive of the stalkers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Zimbabwe. By James Muonwa, Mashonaland West Correspondent &#8211; MDC Alliance Mashonaland West provincial secretary, Tawanda Bvumo says he is now living in fear following an attempted abduction incident by three unknown men in Chegutu on Tuesday night. A perennial campaigner in Chegutu East constituency, Bvumo claims Zanu PF elements were behind the failed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":41165,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,35,10,15],"tags":[1493,2189,19],"class_list":["post-41166","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-homepage-english","category-parties","category-twitter","tag-africa-press","tag-africa-press-zimbabwe-2","tag-zimbabwe"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>MDC Alliance Top Official Living In Fear After Foiled Abduction - zimbabwe<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"By James Muonwa, Mashonaland West Correspondent - MDC Alliance Mashonaland West provincial secretary, Tawanda Bvu ...\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/mdc-alliance-top-official-living-in-fear-after-foiled-abduction\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"MDC Alliance Top Official Living In Fear After Foiled Abduction\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"By James Muonwa, Mashonaland West Correspondent - 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