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MDC
Secretary-General Hon Tendai Biti receives death threat
Movement
for Democratic Change (MDC)
July 27,
2009
The MDC Secretary-General,
Hon Tendai Biti, has received a letter with a live bullet inside
it in what the party is treating as a death threat.
The letter was delivered
at the MDC Secretary-General's home in Highlands and a police
report has been lodged at Harare Central police station.
The letter accompanying
the bullet was inscribed "Raira nhaka" (Sort out your
Estate), which is an apparent death threat to Hon Biti, who is also
the Minister of Finance.
The MDC believes that
these threats cannot be taken lightly, especially against the background
of renewed violence and persecution of MDC leaders, MPs and members.
The threats also come against a background of increased vitriol
against Hon Biti by the public media, Nathaniel Manheru and the
Zanu PF sidekick, Jonathan Moyo, through sponsored articles in which
the "victims" are never given the right of reply. The
MDC has not forgotten that in 2008, Nathaniel Manheru, the pen name
of a senior official in the Ministry of Media, Information and Publicity,
predicted that there would be blood on the political floor barely
weeks before Zanu PF went into an orgy of violence following the
MDC's historic victory in the 29 March 2008 plebiscite. Jonathan
Moyo's diatribe has been a forerunner to calamities against
forces of progress as evidenced by the bombing of The Daily News
printing press in the early hours of Sunday, 28 January 2001 barely
hours after the former Information minister had issued what he called
a "last warning" to the newspaper.
The live bullet delivered
at Hon Biti's home is a tragic climax to the barrage of defamatory
vitriol spewed through the public media ever since the Minister
of Finance delivered a pro-poor mid-term fiscal policy position
which was well-received by the various sectors of the economy.
The terror-tactics of
sending live bullets to Cabinet ministers is a sure sign that the
desperate forces fighting the new dispensation are getting more
and more desperate every day.
As a party, we hope that
there will be full investigation on this matter and we hope that
the justice system will move with speed in getting to the root of
this matter.
Just as a barking dog
will not stop a moving train, the childish, petty and puerile forces
of darkness will not deter the MDC officials in the inclusive government
from working tirelessly to save Zimbabwe. This country belongs to
all of us.
Together to the end,
marching to a new Zimbabwe.
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