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Zimbabwe’s national security is under threat as the Central Intelligence Organisation (CIO) is allegedly experiencing a massive exodus of intelligence officers and operatives, Nhau/Indaba has learnt.
Operatives have reportedly joined the trek to the West for ‘greener pastures’ citing poor working conditions.
Some are allegedly pursuing careers in the care work abroad, a scenario that leaves state security sector under threat.According to outspoken Norton legislator Temba Mliswa, at least 40 operatives per day recently resigned from the feared CIO.
“Precisely, at one point over 40 were resigning per day as I said earlier on. It’s why i have consitently called for a revision of the working conditions for the state security of this country.”
Mliswa said the current situation of poor working conditions bedeviling the sector has become a national security threat as Zimbabwe heads for the harmonised elections later this year.
“National security is for the state and should be supported to be professional in its duties. The current malaise where state security is abused to persecute innocent people like Hopewell Chin’ono and Job Sikhala should be shunned and it should revert to its core mandate.”
He added that it was the root cause of alleged information leaks.
“It’s also why information can leak easily because the workers don’t feel appreciated. They will sell to the highest bidder. Once you have a system where you are constantly changing people and appointing new ones, you have to a structural problem in the system,” he said.
Currently it is not clear on who is superintending over the state security ministry following the sacking of Owen ‘Mudha’ Ncube by President Mnangagwa in January last year.
Mliswa also criticised the current funding of the Forever Association of Zimbabwe (FAZ), a shadowy campaign organisation reportedly linked to President Emmerson Mnangagwa which was accused of vote rigging in some provinces during the recent Zanu primary elections.
He said funds being diverted to the shadowy organisation could have beeen better utilised to fund the state security sector which was now a risk to national security.
“If the FAZ money was used to support the security sector there wouldn’t be all these resignations. We are going towards elections and the sector has to be at its best. Even the Police and the Army, their conditions of service are very bad. That compromises state security,” he said. Nhau/Indaba
