Jonathan Moyo Under CIO Surveillance - Report

Former Higher and Tertiary Education Minister and ZANU PF politburo member, Jonathan Moyo, said officers from the Central Intelligence Organisation (CIO) paid a worker at a complex where he is staying to get his picture from CCTV cameras.

Moyo revealed this while responding to a tweet by veteran journalist Violet Gonda, who had said she met Moyo in East Africa (presumably Kenya), where they discussed a number of issues. Said Moyo:

At least you did not use a CCTV camera like CIO agents at the Zimbabwe Embassy here who paid a worker at a Residential Complex to steal a picture from a CCTV system; saying it was strictly for covert use, only to give the CCTV picture to Mnangagwa’s varakashi. The plot is up in smoke!

Moyo fled the country in November 2017 during the coup that overthrew the late President Robert Mugabe.

He was reportedly granted asylum by the Kenyan government, and the government of Zimbabwe’s attempt to have Moyo’s former ally, Saviour Kasukuwere arrested and extradited by Interpol hit a brick wall earlier this year.