By Dakarai Tembo

The Harare Post has it on good authority that MDC Alliance National Youth Assembly leadership led by its Chairperson, Obey Sithole, held a meeting in Bulawayo on 28 July 2019 where they plotted to carry out acts of banditry across the country.

MDC Youth Assembly Secretary General, Gift Siziba; Organising Secretary, Godfrey Kurauone, Bulawayo Provincial Youth Assembly Chairperson, Tinashe Kambarami among other unidentified individuals attended the secret meeting which deliberated on the details that seeks to create commotion in Zimbabwe.

According to a source privy to the developments, the elaborate plan is to carry out terror attacks on businesses of prominent ZANU PF sympathizers as well as torching the Party’s vehicles to decimate its fleet.

“The latest move is designed to force ZANU PF onto the negotiating table at the same time attracting the attention of the international community as well as sending a message that Zimbabwe is now a failed State,” revealed the source.

Sithole is said to have stressed that the resolution to carry out the attacks was passed by the Youth Assembly’s leadership before directing leaders of various portfolios that attended the meeting to profile all ZANU PF aligned businesses. He added that the attacks should be carried out simultaneously with the planned demonstrations. According to the source, Sithole gave out that “if executed properly, Government would be forced to call for elections before 2023. We want a National Transitional Authority (NTA) which will prepare elections before the 2023 National Elections not this useless Political Actors Dialogue (POLAD).”

The grant plan hatched is to deploy youths in Provinces which are not their home Provinces to evade detection. Among other agreed strategies was to effect the attacks in the cover of darkness and operate in cells (groups) of four to avoid attracting the attention State security agents. It was also agreed upon that the nation should wake up to blocked roads and burning tyres to scare away motorists, thereby forcing a shutdown in most urban centers around the country.

However, Kambarami was opposed to the traditional methods of operating in groups regardless of size, advocating for ‘lone attacks’ in which specific activists in a particular area are given targets closer to their homes. His contribution was shot down amid fears that State security agents have databases of activists in every area, hence it would be easier for them to round up the culprits.

Furnishing on developments at hand as far as preparations for the heinous attacks are concerned, the source indicated that a team of lawyers and doctors was already in place, while rigorous resources mobilization is underway. The message on how the attacks would be carried out with more specific instructions and finer details is reportedly being filtered to that party’s grassroots support.

Meanwhile, there are indications of resistance from some of the youths’ leaders who are refusing to be used as pawns on a chase board while benefiting nothing from the cat and mouse running battles with law enforcement agents.

This comes at the backdrop of fallout between MDC Alliance leader, Nelson Chamisa and his deputy Tendai Biti who are failing to find each other as far as how best they can frog march Government to the negotiating table. Chamisa is preaching dialogue coupled by national prayers, while Biti’s confidants, the likes of Sithole are on a crusade mobilizing for militant confrontation of Government.