Tinashe Sambiri|Former ZBC radio and television presenter, Ezra Tshisa Sibanda has postulated that senior government officials plotted Kembo Mohadi’s downfall.

Mohadi resigned on Monday after being accused of using his position to abuse women.

However, Ezra Tshisa Sibanda has different views:

It’s increasingly clear the phone recording of former Vice President Kembo in his sex scandals was a huge security breach. How could a phone belonging to someone in the Presidium be secretly recorded.

This was not just an ordinary person, he was number 2 and highly protected. I believe only the intelligence conducted the gravest intrusion in Mohadi’s phone. The Government of Zimbabwe should be concerned by this intrusion, it should be of great concern to the whole leadership and heads should roll. In a normal situation, the head of security would resign following these leaks.

Former Vice-President Kembo Mohadi has been adamant that his political enemies were out to get him by cloning his voice and creating non-existent sex scandals. They final got him and he is gone. It will be helpful for Mohadi to name his enemies and who gave them powers to clone his phone.

It’s a criminal offence to intercept phone calls unless it is done by a member of the police or intelligence agencies acting with a warrant, which can be granted by courts only to protect national security, to prevent serious crime or to safeguard the economic wellbeing of the country.

It’s also an offence to gain access to material which is stored on a communication system, such as a voice message, without a search warrant or a production order, either of which has to be approved by the courts.

There is noway anybody outside the intelligence agencies and the police can be allowed to obtain any kind of authority to intercept phone calls or messages. The fact that we haven’t heard police investigating this breach of security on Mohadi makes it clear this is an act by someone in authority and within the intelligence.

What happened is a serious threat to national security. Surely foreign power-sponsored or foreign power-coordinated intelligence activity can penetrate our intelligence systems easily if we go by what happened to Mohadi.

I can safely conclude and agree with Mohadi that his enemies within the government have brought him down.

No ordinary person would manage to clone or hack his phone, it’s too sophisticated to do that.