HIGHER and Tertiary Education minister and Zanu PF politburo member, Jonathan Moyo has said missing activist, Itai Dzamara could indeed have been abducted.

Dzamara, who is believed to have been abducted by suspected State security agents near his Harare home in March last year after staging a series of solo anti-President Robert Mugabe protests, has grabbed global attention with opposition parties and diplomats based in Harare accusing government of not doing enough to account for him.

In May last year, Moyo triggered a storm when he opined in a BBC interview that Dzamara, who disappeared without trace 15 months ago, may have voluntarily skipped the country’s porous borders.

“People disappear every day and you mention one person, but in fact, we have quite some porous borders. A lot of people cross borders without our knowing,” Moyo, who was Information minister then, said.

But on Tuesday, in response to questions from his followers on micro blogging site Twitter, Moyo said he regretted his statements.

“On Dzamara, while a lot has been said, including by me, the scary and indubitable fact is that he was abducted in broad daylight. So yes, it’s regrettable that I have said things that have unfortunately conflated and confused a missing person with an abducted person,” he said, adding he felt for the Dzamara family.by Thobekile Zhou. Source: Byo24News

Photo-Vice President Emmerson Mnangagwa with Professor Jonathan Moyo