Tadzingaira Tachiveyi, the former Central Intelligence Organisation (CIO) deputy director for Counter Intelligence, was picked up at his farm in Musana and his home in Vainona, Harare, was searched by over a dozen police officers.
Police seized guns during the raid, but later returned them after discovering they were licenced.
Tachiveyi, who was alleged to be plotting with former First Lady Grace Mugabe, was let go hours later in an embarrassing farce for Mnangagwa’s government.
An associate of Tachiveyi told this website that police wanted to know about his recent movements, and purpose of his “frequent” visits to former President Robert Mugabe’s Blue Roof residence.
Tachiveyi is one of several intelligence officials fired in the immediate aftermath of a military coup that ousted former President Robert Mugabe on November 15 last year.
“They just wanted to shake the tree, they hoped they would stumble on something. It’s a paranoid regime that sees plots everywhere; they are shooting at their own shadows,” the associate said.
Police have not commented on the arrest.
Zanu PF is in a heightened state of panic after a June 23 bomb attack on a their rally at Bulawayo’s White City Stadium. Mnangagwa has said he was a target of the bomb plot, which killed two aides of Vice Presidents Constantino Chiwenga and Kembo Mohadi, and wounded dozens others.
Following that explosion, Mnangagwa said he suspected the ambitious former First Lady and Mugabe loyalists in the security establishment were being the explosion. He said it was his “hunch without facts”.-Zimlive.com
