Sikhala laughs off ‘secret’ Mujuru tape

By Tendai Kamhungira

HARARE – Job Sikhala has scoffed at claims that he met Vice President Joice Mujuru’s emissaries to discuss a plot to oust President Robert Mugabe.

The State media yesterday reported that the firebrand politician had met the emissaries at an undisclosed location in Harare.

However, Sikhala, whose phone went on voicemail each time the Daily News sought to get a comment from him, later posted on his Facebook page ridiculing the claims.

“When your country is under the stewardship of the demented they always fear their shadows. Today I laughed my lungs out kuti mai vangu chavakafira hapana chavakaona. (The dead are missing out on this circus).

“Kwanzi (they say) we have a recorded tape when Sikhala was talking to vice president Joice Mujuru’s emissaries trying to find ways how we should work together to deal with the demented Presidency before us,” he said.

He said the details were a concocted conversation propelled by a desperate faction of the wicked.

“Ngavangoshungurudza (They can harass) our Vice President without creating non-existent emissaries and illusionary meetings.

“The frightened gang …want to take control of our country. Some of us will never watch it happening. This gang is evil and satanic. It can only govern hell and Satan’s Kingdom, not our beloved Zimbabwe,” Sikhala said.

According to The Sunday Mail report, during the alleged meeting, Sikhala discussed the formation of a coalition to topple Mugabe and also a plan to launch a Constitutional Court application against Mugabe’s wife Grace.

The report claims the objective on the court application was to humiliate Mugabe.

Part of the alleged conversation reads, “We take chiConstitutional Court (challenge) chekuti: ‘Zvakuratidza President is failing to run Executive yake yaanayo. Honayi zvakataura Grace apa.

“It shows this and its implications inoreva zvakati, zvakati because for Grace to call (for) the removal of a VP who is constitutionally-appointed, it shows kuti Mugabe is no longer running, so automatically it disqualifies him to make any decision because the decisions are no longer made by him but by the wife and Zimbabwe cannot continue to be a State with a wife of the President making decisions.”

According to the alleged conversation which Sikhala disputes, the parties in the so-called meeting went on to discuss how Mujuru and MDC president Morgan Tsvangirai could work together, adding that whatever move would be made, it was to involve former Finance minister Simba Makoni. Daily News