I fell over this paragraph and a line in an article I blogged on yesterday on The Bearded Man. And it got me thinking.If Mugabe had Chihuri imprisoned during the Chimurenga, then why has he seen fit to appoint him as Commissioner of the Z R Police?

If Mugabe had Chihuri imprisoned during the Chimurenga, then why has he seen fit to appoint him as Commissioner of the Z R Police?

“Senior and junior police officers suspected of being sympathetic to the MDC have been systematically purged from the force by the highly politically partisan police commissioner. Chihuri was arrested and incarcerated in ruthless conditions on the orders of Mugabe in Mozambique during Zimbabwe’s war of liberation.

He has in no way concealed his support for ZANU PF and President Mugabe.”

There is one answer and it is either that his incarceration made him meek and mild and therefore he would toe Mugabe’s line, or is it because Mugabe admired his spunk after being jailed?

I have scoured the internet in the past 2 or 3 hours trying to find any mention of this anywhere else and have been singularly unsuccessful. Of course, they may be reference to it elsewhere, but Chihuri would, in most likelihood be referred to using his Chimurenga name – which I, unfortunately, do not know…

I wonder if anyone out there knows?

Take care.

‘debvhu