Sources told The Zimbabwean on Sunday that a powerful clique within the CIO has been working on getting rid of President Robert Mugabe but was discovered by the geriatric leader.
CIO director, Happyton Bonyongwe, is battling for his political and professional survival after what is believed to be the exposure of his involvement in the Makoni project. Bonyongwe, impeccable sources have revealed, has also come under serious scrutiny and summoned for questioning by Mugab,e who has reportedly discovered his role in foiled coup plots.
Mugabe is said to have hastily arranged for what sources described as realignment and refocusing of power within the CIO top leadership by effectively making its deputy director, Menard Muzariri, closest to him. In addition, Mugabe also did some shuffling of officials in charge of critical and sensitive tasks, mainly to do with his safety and security.
It is a very complex saga, a top source said.Mugabe discovered that there have even been deliberate plans to compromise his security and expose him by people he thought were still very loyal to him.
When he cracked the whip and summoned people one by one, he then learnt of the serious divisions and how a powerful clique had played a major role in forming the
Makoni outfit and was even providing logistical, material and human resources to it.
State security minister Didymus Mutasa was summoned by Mugabe and is understood to have confirmed that there were many sell-outs in government, including CIO.
We heard from reliable sources in the Makoni camp that probably Simba has more CIO leaders on his side than Mugabe. They said Bonyongwe and other top CIO members were even involved in meetings held to plan the Makoni project here and in South Africa.
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