{"id":8776,"date":"2012-04-12T12:50:29","date_gmt":"2012-04-12T12:50:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.faceofmalawi.com\/?p=8776"},"modified":"2012-04-12T12:50:29","modified_gmt":"2012-04-12T12:50:29","slug":"zanu-pfs-jonathan-moyo-angers-malawians","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/2012\/04\/12\/zanu-pfs-jonathan-moyo-angers-malawians\/","title":{"rendered":"Zanu PF’s Jonathan Moyo Angers Malawians"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
\"\"<\/a>Zanu PF politburo member Jonathan Moyo has been slammed over his published conspiracy theories surrounding the death of Malawian President Bingu wa Mutharika and his attack on Nigerian prophet Temitope Balogun \u201cTB\u201d Joshua.<\/div>\n
There was a flurry of angry reactions on the social media platforms yesterday to Moyo\u2019s utterances in the State media alleging a conspiracy in the death of wa Mutharika and claiming TB Joshua was an accessory to the late Malawian leader\u2019s \u201cmurder\u201d.<\/div>\n
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Malawians demanded an apology from Moyo for claims that wa Mutharika might have been murdered in an \u201cintelligence operation\u201d.<\/div>\n
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\u201cThere is even spirited speculation in well informed circles that TB Joshua had privileged intelligence information about a death plot against President wa Mutharika and the plotters used him as their microphone to divert attention from them and let the death appear like it was an act of God when it was an intelligence operation,\u201d Moyo said in remarks quoted in the State media.<\/div>\n
Malawians accused the former Information minister of attempting to cause anarchy.<\/div>\n
Wa Mutharika died of a heart attack last Thursday, two months after the Nigerian prophet had foretold the death of an African leader whom he did not mention by name. TB Joshua repeated the prophecy a week before Mutharika\u2019s death on April 1.<\/div>\n
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Malawian football agent Felix Ngamanya Sapao said: \u201cIt\u2019s unfortunate that after Malawi received a condolence message from President (Robert) Mugabe and the people of Zimbabwe, Zanu PF\u2019s unofficial spokesman, the legislator for Tsholotsho North Professor Jonathan Moyo, comes out with his unfounded conspiracy theory on the death of our former HE (His Excellency). Please leave our peaceful Malawi alone. That statement needs an apology.\u201d<\/div>\n
Sapao made the comments on social networking medium, Facebook.<\/div>\n
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Others described Moyo\u2019s utterances as \u201cunpalatable\u201d given Malawi was still mourning its leader. Mabvuto Mike Missih said Moyo should stop confronting \u201cmen of God as he will not win the battle\u201d.<\/div>\n
\u201cYou confront men of God and the end result is losing the battle. The best is to change and live to praise God,\u201d said Missih.<\/div>\n
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MDC-T aspiring MP and University of Zimbabwe political science lecturer John Makumbe said Moyo\u2019s utterances were a reflection of the fear in Zanu PF over prophecies.He said by attacking TB Joshua\u2019s prophecy, Moyo was courting trouble.<\/div>\n
\u201cHe is fooling himself. So who did he (TB Joshua) connive with to kill Michael Jackson or predict Zambia\u2019s victory at the Africa Cup of Nations? It\u2019s only that he scared Moyo to death because everyone was thinking the old leader (who was going to die) was President Mugabe. A lot of Zanu PF leaders were in trepidation. To attack TB Joshua is to invite trouble,\u201d Makumbe said.<\/div>\n
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But Zanu PF spokesperson Rugare Gumbo said Moyo\u2019s utterances did not reflect the Zanu PF position.<\/div>\n
\u201cAsk Jonathan Moyo, he\u2019s the one who said it. He was speaking on his own behalf,\u201d Gumbo said.<\/div>\n
Moyo unleashed a diatribe against the Nigerian prophet saying: \u201cTB Joshua\u2019s involvement in this tragedy smacks more of a plot than a prophecy. One thing for sure is that there is no prophecy here, but just a prediction if one is to give him a benefit of doubt.<\/div>\n
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This leaves open the questions as to what happened because to neutral people there appears to be more to the saga than meets the eye.<\/div>\n

\u201cThe kind of exact alleged prophecy on when it was going to happen shows that this was being said by someone with medical information and not from God. It\u2019s possible to medically induce a cardiac arrest no wonder why his death was first leaked by his doctors. If you start seeing people making such prophecies, it shows that the world is coming to an end. I have no doubt in my mind that TB Joshua is a false prophet.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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