Tafadzwa Musekiwa who fled Zimbabwe for the UK is returning home after 15 years. This was revealed by his friend, Job Sikhala. He said...
Tafadzwa Musekiwa who fled Zimbabwe for the UK is returning
home after 15 years. This was revealed by his friend, Job Sikhala.
He said :” It is now some solid 15 years since I last met
my dearest friend Tafadzwa Musekiwa. I last remember the last day I took him to
the airport on his airborne to London for resting after his house in Unit K,
Chitungwiza was bombed by members of the military using grenades. He was
severely injured by the grenades to which he had to seek medical attention
elsewhere.
When he left we hugged each other promising that we were
soon to meet as he will be back within a month. Unbeknown to all of us he
didn't know that soon after he left his friend was going to be arrested and go
through horrendous torture under the hands of the military at Kabri Barracks.
When he saw the breaking news of my torture together with my lawyer Gabriel
Shumba and Charles Mutama and Taurai Magaya on the BBC World News at Heathrow
Airport on his way back home he had to quickly phone to confirm what he was seeing.
I was then detained at the local hospital getting treatment
and I explained to him blow by blow of what happened to us. I also told him
that during our torture they were asking me about his whereabouts and seem to
be interested to arrest him. He told me that bye to your country that treats
other human beings as objects worth no life. He was so touched that I heard him
literally crying over the phone when I was explaining to him what had happened
to us. He couldn't stop crying until the phone went off. I was also crying on
the other end. I felt lonely and isolated when my friend told me that he is too
angry to accept to be treated him like that. The death escape from the grenade
bombing was still fresh and wounds not yet fully healed from him.
My mind raced to the day when we were both arrested with
one of the bravest man the MDC ever produced Justin Mutendadzamera. Chamisa was
on the thick of things when we appeared in court charged with plotting to
overthrow a constitutional government. Musekiwa a brave soldier of the struggle
and the movement is back.
He is jetting into his motherland 15 years after he was
exiled by the evil of the current regime. He has vowed to come and push the
campaign for our young presidential candidate Nelson Chamisa. He is not coming
to be a spectator but the force from the front. He has vowed that now is the
time for the generation to speak fearless for its chance and time. He is
arriving early April to be part of Zimbabweans who are fighting for the young
generation to be part and parcel of the state of affairs.
I will go to welcome and pick him from the airport. It's
not over until it is over. My dearest friends lets give our great fighter a
great welcome back home.
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