CIO implicated in Rusape woman’s murder is based in the US

By Lance Guma
01 May 2008

A CIO agent who is based at the Zimbabwean embassy in the United States, is alleged to have shot and killed female MDC activist Tabitha Marume last week Friday in Rusape. The MDC have named Daniel Romeo Mutsunguma as the man who pulled the trigger and shot the woman in the stomach. She died on her way to Mutare General Hospital.

Marume was part of a group of 7 MDC activists who walked to a torture camp at Manonga School, demanding the release of their colleagues who had been abducted by soldiers. Daniel Mutsunguma travelled all the way to Zimbabwe to take part in this terror campaign that has been unleashed on opposition supporters.

Pishai Mucharauya, the newly elected MDC MP for Makoni South, said their investigations have revealed that Mutsunguma’s wife works at the Zimbabwe embassy in Washington as well, as a receptionist.

Muchauraya also disclosed that on 16th April Air force commander Perence Shiri, Wing Commander Winnie Mandeya and Mutsunguma held a meeting in Ward 16 of Makoni West where they warned people that MDC supporters would be dealt with.

Mutsunguma was part of the group of war vets and Zanu PF militia who carried AK-47’s and fired into the crowd, who had done nothing more than appeal to have their colleagues released from a torture camp.