A GWAYI conservancy operator, Langton Masunda, has dismissed accusations by the late Vice-President John Landa Nkomo’s family that he was responsible for the incarceration of their father’s chief security officer for attempted murder. NQOBANI NDLOVU STAFF REPORTER
Eddie Sigoge, a retired army colonel, from Bulawayo was handed an effective four-year jail term after being convicted of attempting to kill Langton’s brother, Patrick, and seven others in a dispute over Lugo Ranch in the Gwayi Conservancy involving Nkomo and Masunda.
Nkomo’s son Jabulani appeared to absolve Sigoge of wrong-doing and instead blamed the police and Masunda for his incarceration.
He said police had folded their hands while a man from Mashonaland wreaked havoc in Matabeleland North.
However, Masunda on Sunday hit back at Jabulani, describing him as a greedy young man,who owed everything to inheritance.
“If Jabulani was a true Zimbabwean, conforming to the revolutionary ideals of his father, he would have applied for a farm in person like any other Zimbabwean.
“But because he uses the culture of inheritance where he has got nothing significant to his name, he has chosen to speak about an estate which he is not an executor of,” he said.
“Even if I come from Mashonaland as he claims, as a Zimbabwean, I am entitled to live in a place of my choice and engage in any activities of my choice within the bounds of Zimbabwe laws.
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“I sympathise with the young man driving in inherited cars, living in inherited houses and living on inherited money while some of us young people are living in sweat, tears and blood because we believe in the charter that liberated our country.”
Masunda dismissed Jabulani’ claims that police were protecting him and instead accused him of concocting false criminal charges to get him arrested.
Referring to Sigoge’s imprisonment, Masunda said although he respected the role played by the former freedom fighters during the war of liberation, they should not be immune to the country’s laws if ever they violated them.
“War veterans should be respected for fighting so hard to liberate Zimbabweans despite their tribal affiliations,” he said.
“But this does not make them immune to the law that they can kill, assassinate, rape and steal just because they liberated the country.”
Sigoge is appealing his sentence saying it’s tantamount to a death sentence as he is facing various life threatening ailments.
