The news website, New Zimbabwe.com on Wednesday alleged that Peter Pamire, the black empowerment advocate, was murdered by a 'death squad' of the Central Intelligence Organisation. It's also alleged that he was murdered because he was having an affair with the first lady. Pamire died in car crash in 1996 when he allegedly lost control of the Pajero he was driving and overturned. He is said to have died instantly.

Mduduzi Mathuthu, Editor of New Zimbabwe, said a CIO operative who was part of the 'death squad' that shot Pamire at the wheel of his vehicle, fled Zimbabwe a month ago and is now based in the UK.

Mathuthu said the operative, whom they refer to as agent K, was able to provide details of how they executed their plot starting from the Harare International airport where Pamire had just arrived from a trip to Johannesburg. He described the type of clothes Pamire was wearing, which were 'blue jeans, a black jacket and a T-shirt written Zambezi. Pamire's elder brother Ignatious confirmed these were the clothes he was wearing when he died.

Agent K said he was the driver of a CIO Mazda 626 vehicle that trailed Pamire from the airport to Addington Lane, Borrowdale. He said that a fellow operative Lewis Mucheke was sitting in the front passenger seat and was the one who fired the fatal shot that entered below the back of Pamire's neck to the right and exited just below his left eye.

Another CIO agent named as Nathan Shamuyarira (jnr), who was travelling in a separate vehicle, is alleged to have covered up the gun-shot wound by inserting a metal rod through the path of the bullet wound, removing any impression that Pamire had been shot. Post mortem results on Pamire, who was rushed to the trauma centre in Harare hours after the accident, indicated he had died as a result of a severe head wound.

Although the revelations made by Agent K are indeed astounding, certain questions are now being raised. For instance, in testimony given to the court inquiry at the time two eye witnesses allegedly watched the vehicle develop problems and roll over on Addington Lane. Further testimony indicates that these two eyewitnesses were the first to run to the scene, call the ambulance and one of them administered first aid to the victim. The truth of who was or wasn't behind the death of Peter Pamire may never be known.