DISCLAIMER: The opinion expressed in the below article is the writer’s alone.
Didymus Mutasa’s continual discloses of national secrets is a criminal offence which demands that he should be arrested. Mutasa served two terms a state security minister in the present government.
According to the Official Secrets Act section 2 (a) Any person who—retains for any purpose prejudicial to the safety or interests of Zimbabwe any official document, whether or not completed or issued for use, when he has no right to retain it or when it is contrary to his duty to retain it or fails to comply with any directions issued by lawful authority with regard to the return or disposal thereof; or (b) allows any other person to have possession of any official document issued for his use alone; or (c) communicates to any person any secret official code or password issued for his use alone or without lawful authority or excuse has in his possession any official document or secret official code or password issued for the use of some person other than himself; shall be guilty of an offence and liable to a fine not exceeding level twelve or to imprisonment for a period not exceeding ten years or to both such fine and such imprisonment.
In this vein Mutasa has become a national security threat that can compromise Zimbabwe as a whole since he is busy splashing information which is prejudicial to state.
As a seasoned politician, Didymus Mutasa is expected to swallow his pride in a dignified manner as opposed to adopting the concept of ‘loose cannon’ which can fall and explode any time without any control.
The worst virtue in him is that, he tasted sour grapes with ZANU-PF; this explains why he is acting like wild bush fire. But Mutasa should recognise that when he served as State security minister he was bound by Official Security Act not to disclose anything that he acquired during his tenure. Any violation of its clauses makes him liable to arrest. If ever he remains free he is doing so at the mercy of the state.
Mutasa is urged to re-invite his sanity and behave himself and stop provoking the laws.
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Zanu PF has been committing treason by rigging elections and by revealing this to the nation Mutasa is doing the nation a great service. All Zanu PF want to do here is silence him and cover their criminal activities. The whole Zanu PF cabinet is there to serve the nation and not the insatiable greed for power and wealth of a tyrant and his cronies!
Mr. Mugabe’s Sympathiser writer, pliz there is no state security which u ar toking about. He is disclosing a very important information of national interest and what he was doing during his tenure with Mugabe was really a national security threat and was supposed to be arrested during his tenure in office but now he now disclosing the information which is needed by our citizens even other pple in ZANU PF so that they could kno kuti chimoto chikada kubvira vanoppera vose coz MDC T has the largest support in Zimbabwe.
My last words, which state security did he divulge to the world besides how ZANU PF lost 2013 elections and all other past elections? Just bcoz its Mutasa who is saying that he now a threat? MDC from the word go they were saying it but never regarded it as state security. Is ZANU PF a state?
How many crimes are under Mugarbage belt?Arrest the Goblin first.
Mr kajau our country,stopped functioning as a state long back, so it’s now difficult to differentiate party and state security secretes,our country has been run by a party not a government for a very long time.