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23 June 2011<\/span> Last updated at<\/span> 06:38 ET<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

A top army officer in Zimbabwe has accused Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai of being a security threat.<\/p>\n

“He takes instructions from foreigners who seek to effect illegal regime change,” Brig-Gen Douglas Nyikayaramba told the state-run Herald paper.<\/p>\n

His comments come after Mr Tsvangirai urged military chiefs to remove their uniforms if they wanted to challenge him politically in forthcoming polls.<\/p>\n

Mr Tsvangirai joined a unity government with President Robert Mugabe in 2009.<\/p>\n

The coalition, which took power after disputed elections in 2008, has helped stabilise the economy and reduced political violence.<\/p>\n

But the administration has been fraught with squabbles over introducing reforms.<\/p>\n

Mr Mugabe and his Zanu-PF party have been pushing for polls this year, but human rights activists have been worried about reports of increased political harassment of his opponents.<\/p>\n

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President Mugabe will only leave office if he sees it fit or dies\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

End Quote<\/span> Douglas Nyikayaramba<\/span> Brigadier-general<\/span><\/div>\n

The prime minister’s party – the Movement for Democratic Change – wants security forces to stay out of politics and to not publicly support Mr Mugabe in the next election.<\/p>\n

Many of Zimbabwe’s security chiefs fought with President Mugabe during the 1970s guerrilla war against white minority rule and remain fiercely loyal to him.<\/p>\n

The army was said to have been involved in systematic attacks on Mr Tsvangirai’s supporters after he won the first round of the 2008 election.<\/p>\n

According to the AFP news agency, Brig-Gen Nyikayaramba has recently been removed from the constitution-making body after saying Mr Mugabe should remain in power for life.<\/p>\n

‘Nonsense’<\/span><\/p>\n

He repeated his view to the Herald: “President Mugabe will only leave office if he sees it fit or dies. No-one should be talking about his departure at the moment. We will die for him to make sure he remains in power.<\/p>\n

Brig-Gen Nyikayaramba dismissed Mr Tsvangirai’s comments at a rally over the weekend as “nonsense”.<\/p>\n

“Tsvangirai doesn’t pose a political threat in any way in Zimbabwe, but is a major security threat,” he said.<\/p>\n

“We are dealing with a national security threat, which can only be dealt with by people in uniform.<\/p>\n

“If it was a normal political environment, one would hope to retire at some point and join politics.”<\/p>\n

The MDC argues without a new constitution and electoral reforms, forthcoming polls would not be free and fair.<\/p>\n

Mr Mugabe and his allies say Zimbabwe’s economic problems are the result of a plot to oust him because of his policy of seizing white-owned land.<\/p>\n

His critics accuse him of turning what used to be be on Africa’s most developed economies into a basket case.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/p>\n

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