Staff Reporter
Citizens have called on Zimbabwe Defence Forces (ZDF) to charge Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) leader, Nelson Chamisa with desertion.
Chamisa claimed that he enrolled with the Air Force of Zimbabwe, did medical checks and went for interviews before finally deciding to drop out because he feared he would die.
Responding to the claim, citizens have called on the military to charge Chamisa with desertion.
“Vamwe venyu hamuzvizive kuti ndakanga ndaronga zano ndabva paGutu rokuti ndaida kuita musoja, ndobva ndaenda kunoita maMedical test ndikaenda kuma interview nevamwe vainzi Gamwe kuAir Force, ndaifanira kunoita pilot. Zvapera izvozvo ndokubva ndati aah handisi kuzonofa here kumberi uko (some of you do not know that when I came from Gutu, I had planned to become a soldier. I and Gamwe went for medicals and interviews to become a pilot in the Air Force of Zimbabwe),” said Chamisa.
Munyadzi Zondo called on the ZDF to charge Chamisa with desertion under their Marshall Law.
“Chamisa is a bad role model, he is actually telling the soldiers and youths in the Military that it’s okay to abscond duty in the ZDF, an example should be set by bringing Chamisa before the Marshall law for desertion,” said Zondo.
Whilst some people have labelled Chamisa a deserter, political analyst Nyasha Mutseta warned citizens against trusting Chamisa saying he is one who cannot be trusted when he speaks. Mutseta said Chamisa had lied to his supporters before and he most probably will do it again.
“As a political analyst, it is difficult to believe that Chamisa was ever a soldier or ever enrolled as he claims. I say so because he has a track record of denying his words if he feels cornered. He has done it before at HardTalk,” said Mutseta.
Chamisa made claims at a rally to the effect that he had been offered US$15 billion by former United States President Donald Trump. After realising he was cornered by Stephen Sackur in an interview on HardTalk, he, however, denied ever saying this statement.
In the same interview, he also admitted that he had lied on stage during a rally that he could offer Zimbabwe Bullet trains to ply Harare to Bulawayo in less than one hour.
