BDP Facebook claims DK meets Mugabe for BMD funding

MONKAGEDI GAOTLHOBOGWE
Staff Writer | Tuesday July 13, 2010 00:00

However, DK  told Mmegi that the BDP will respond to the Facebook post today. He admitted travelling to Zimbabwe with Moyo, who has Zimbabwean roots, though he said it was a journey of friends without any political purpose.

Infact, DK was quick to add that the BDP should rest assured that he remains a BDP activist through and through.'I want to state that I will be launching the BDP parliamentary candidate for Tonota North as soon as the party has concluded its primary elections,' he said. 'I will be launching the BDP candidate for Tonota North as the Chairman of the BDP.' Nevertheless, one Leruo Maswabi, who purports to be a BDP member working and living in Harare, yesterday posted this warning to 'genuine patriotic' Batswana on the BDP Facebook page (copied verbatim):

'On Friday 09th July 2010 I got a call from a ZANU-PF friend of mine to inform me that the BMD treasurer MP Guma Moyo was coming to Harare, Zimbabwe, to meet with the ZANU-PF leadership, including the ZANU-PF President Robert Mugabe!'.

'Mission; to discuss funding of BMD by Robert Mugabe and his ZANU-PF!!! This came as a shock to me. BUT what shocked me most was that Guma Moyo was being accompanied by the BDP Party Chairman Rre Kwelagobe!!!!'

'Yes I can confirm that they landed together! They met some very senior ZANU-PF officials from Friday, Saturday, Sunday and Monday morning including Mugabe. They left for Gaborone from the Harare airport this afternoon at 2pm. What is Rre Kwelagobe up to???!!'.

Leruo Maswabi is a mysterious character on Facebook. He has no picture and only three friends. It is widely believed that he is one of a number of Directorate of Intelligence and Security (DIS) agents currently assigned to malign the BDP chairman.

Rumours of DK and Moyo boarding a flight together to Zimbabwe first surfaced over the weekend with some BDP members sounding uneasy and panicked. Infact, established BDP stalwarts such as McDonald Peloetletse phoned News Editor of Mmegi yesterday about how the BDP chairman had crossed over to the BMD. The fact is that the BDP Facebook page is open to anyone. At any rate, questions abound about how such a sensitive piece of information as Leruo Maswabi's regarding a man of Kwelagobe's standing could be allowed to stay on the BDP Facebook wall for more than three hours. Under normal circumstances, the webmaster would pull down or delete any post deemed a security threat. There are implications of sedition and imputations of threatening state security in these claims.

Said the man at the centre of what could be a gathering storm: 'Ko Zimbabwe ke ne ke ile le Letebele le la me ka tsa matshelo a rona,' DK said. 'Re tswa ko Zimbabwe, ga se sephiri.

'But we never met Mugabe or any of his ministers. We went there purely for personal reasons.

Moyo did not go to Zimbabwe as a BMD (activist), nor did I travel there as the BDP chairman. That must be made clear.'