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Why the US imposed sanctions on Zimbabwe’s state security minister Owen Ncube?

Why the US imposed sanctions on Zimbabwe’s state security minister Owen Ncube.Within hours of the “anti-sanctions march” organised by President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s ruling Zanu PF party and government on Friday, United States president Donald Trump responded immediately by adding State Security Minister Owen ‘Mudha’


Ncube to the sanctions list.In this article Nehanda Radio explores why Ncube was placed on the ‘targeted’ sanctions list.The Trump administration accuses Ncube of being involved in the state-sponsored violence on civilians that saw several people being shot dead by soldiers, while many others sustained injuries from beatings and other forms of brutalisation by the military and other suspected state agents.


Ncube, a former Midlands Provincial Affairs Minister and Gokwe-Kana MP, is accused of leading a violent party militia calling itself “Al Shabab” in Kwekwe.There was general shock and consternation when he sworn in as Minister of State for National Security in the President’s Office.In September 2012, then Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai (now late) accused the then Defence Minister Emmerson Mnangagwa of bankrolling “Al Shabab” in Kwekwe.When Mnangagwa lost the Kwekwe Central parliamentary seat to MDC-T candidate Blessing Chebundo, Ncube allegedly mobilised a gang of thugs that burnt down Chebundo’s house.Ncube is also accused of being a key member of Mnangagwa’s gold mafia in the Midlands.

His appointment was slammed by the main opposition Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) who said “the Ministry of State Security is simply the Ministry of Gukurahundi, Murambatsvina and Political Violence.Who would have imagined a Mnangagwa government without that? It is always responsible for extra-legal activities, disappearances and human rights abuses.”A statement by Dr Nkululeko Sibanda, a spokesman for MDC president Nelson Chamisa said “Mnangagwa could not resist his speciality – you cannot have a mafia regime that does not have an enforcer wing.He waited until everyone had forgotten about the cabinet then he dumps this Ministry, midweek, overshadowing the appointment with the Glen View copy-cat stunt.

“He has now realised that he is an illegitimate President, an Emperor without clothes, who now can no longer pretend to be a democrat, but rely on force and violence.After the MDC MPs exposed his illegitimacy he has decided that he must recreate the old Ministry of Gukurahundi.It has taken so short for the pretention to die out.“There is no surprise here, this is Mugabe 2.0 and we always knew this, the choice of Owen Ncube is no surprise either.His relationship with violence is second to none and that alone exposes the illegitimate President’s real agenda.One can only imagine the German government bringing back the Gestapo Ministry but that will never happen,”


Dr Sibanda added.In November 2017 when Mnangagwa had fired from both government and the ruling party, Ncube’s Al Shabab group went on a rampage indiscriminately attacking commuter omnibus crews and residents with machetes demanding the reinstatement of protection fees.Then Zanu PF Midlands provincial commissar Makhosini Hlongwane,

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