By Tichaona Sibanda
It has been alleged that ‘political analyst’ Danny Musukuma, who filed an urgent application at the High Court in Harare to stop the holding of the Second All-Stakeholders Conference, is a CIO operative.
A highly placed source in Harare told SW Radio Africa he has known Musukuma as a member of the notorious CIO for many years. The alleged spook filed his application on Wednesday in an attempt to block the three day conference, due to start on Sunday.
Musukuma said he was representing millions of Zimbabweans who stand to be cheated by political parties and civic society groups by personalizing a process meant to be people driven. He is not alone in stating this as a number of observers have criticized the process.
He charged that allowing the production of the national statistical report on the constitution making process, without having it published in the local newspapers, is a violation of Article 6 of the GPA.
A source told us he had no doubt Musukuma belonged to a ZANU PF faction determined to use both conventional and unconventional means to derail and eventually collapse the COPAC process.
Our source said he had absolutely no doubt in his mind that this is a plot by a certain faction in ZANU PF, adding that the plot is more complicated than it may appear at face value.
He claimed a certain faction within the ZANU PF will do anything to ensure they will not be a new constitution by the time the historic elections are held in 2013.
The papers filed at the High Court sight the Constitutional Parliamentary Committee (COPAC), Ministers Patrick Chinamasa, Elton Mangoma, Tendai Biti, Professor Welshman Ncube, and Priscilla Misihairambwi-Mushonga as the respondents. No date has been set for the hearing at the High Court. SW Radio Africa