President Mugabe's Central Intelligence Organisation (CIO) is reportedly investigating five ambassador designates from the two MDC formations after they sneaked out of Zimbabwe to the Czech Republic in a 10-day trip.
The five who were led by Foreign Affairs Deputy Minister Moses Mzila Ndlovu are MDC-T's Hebson Makuvise, Hilda Suka Mafudze, Jacqueline Nomhla Zwambila, Khumbulani Mabed and Getrude Stevenson Dikey of MDC.
They flew out of the country on Tuesday without notifying the dictator, hence the CIO, the country's premier spy agency is now hot on their heels.
Makuvise is set to be Zimbabwe ambassador to Germany, Suka Mafudze will go to Sudan, Zwambila goes to Australia and Mabed is the ambassador designate to Nigeria. Stevenson Dikey is assigned to Senegal.
The Embassy of the Czech Republic, in Harare, declined to comment when they were contacted by a reporter from the government mouth piece, The Herald last week.
MDC-T spokesperson Mr Nelson Chamisa also declined to give any details to The Herald as well.
It is understood that Mugabe's regime was extremely unhappy at the trip as one of Mugabe's Foreign Affairs official seconded to travel with the diplomats was denied a visa by the Czech Embassy.
"Taking the whole bunch to take instructions from them will be a cause for concern for the Government," a ZANU-PF official said.
Mugabe's allies accused Europe of trying to influence the envoy ahead of their deployment next month.
"Government is currently drawing up their contracts as they will soon be leaving for their posts outside Zimbabwe and their actions are quite surprising," he said.
The five ambassador-designates were nominated from the MDC formations following the formation of the inclusive Government early this year.
The MDC-T has put the issue of ambassadorial postings as a GPA issue but Zanu-PF maintains that diplomats are not appointed on political lines but on professional basis.
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