THE recent mysterious disappearance of Dr Peter Magombeyi should confirm our suspicion that the sudden spate of the so-called ‘abductions’ was the latest desperate attempts by regime change activists to soil the name of the ZANU PF Government.
Initially, they had thought destructive protests were their final and decisive card.
But this dismally failed.
So they thought of coming up with another plan.
As we have already noticed, the protests were always timed to coincide with occasions when regional or world leaders were meeting.
This, they hoped, would persuade these leaders to condemn Zimbabwe.
The present wave of ‘abductions’ seems to fit the same pattern.
Previously, skeptics did not believe us when we said most of these ‘abductions’ could have been stage-managed.
It should not be by accident that these so-called abductions peaked just before the Tokyo International Conference on African Development (TICAD) and the 74th session of the UN General Assembly.
The alleged ‘abduction’ of Dr Magombeyi on the eve of the ongoing UN session had been considered a masterstroke by the regime change triumvirate of MDC Alliance, NGOs and their Western allies.
Surely there was no better forum than the UN General Assembly to show to the world the blatant disregard for human rights by the Zimbabwean Government, so they thought.
Abducting a medical doctor would be quite a delicious subject of attack.
Hoping to make their cause more effective, the MDC Alliance even organised its supporters in the United States to demonstrate against the ‘brutality’ of the ZANU PF Government.
Thank heavens, it turned out to be a damp squib!
Their trump card, a certain Dr Magombeyi, betrayed their cause when he emerged from his claimed State captivity with a story that failed to sell.
His alibi was riddled with holes.
The suspiciously stage-managed ‘abduction’ proved to be too amateurish to convince even the gullible.
Prima facie evidence suggests that what had been hyped as State abduction could, in fact, be an ill-executed disappearing act.
For a start, it looks like Dr Magombeyi was able to foretell his disappearance when he bid his roommate farewell.
Up to now we are not sure whether he was going for a church service or for a drink – two diametrically opposed social functions.
The first people to announce his resurfacing are a regime change clique led by Dewa Mavhinga — and not the police!
There is strong suspicion that these are the people who might have known his whereabouts for those five days or so.
This ‘disoriented’ doctor gave a coherent interview in three languages by phone to Studio 7, a well-known US-funded regime change mouthpiece.
How his phone was so functional after five days of ‘captivity’ raises eyebrows.
The ‘abductee’ of five days resurfaced clean shaven and very smart, justifying the claim that he might have been in a ‘safe’ house under good care.
If indeed the doctor faked his ‘abduction’, chances are, he has earned himself asylum in the US and a medical scholarship to further his studies.
Only time will tell.
However, we believe our medical doctors are one group with the largest concentration of sharp brains.
It therefore boggles the mind how they could be hoodwinked into sacrificing the lives of innocent patients by this 26-year-old intern without verifying facts.