Thread by @NewsHawksLive

Zimbabwean President Emmerson Mnangagwa's top priority on his state visit to Kenya today is to lobby host President Uhuru Kenyatta to extradite ex-minister Jonathan Moyo amid new signs of a deadly political plot to bump him off for continuing to be an unbearable pain in the neck.

Mnangagwa left for Nairobi today on a state visit preceded by the third meeting of the Kenya Joint Permanent Commission on Cooperation co-chaired by Foreign Affairs permanent secretary James Manzou who will negotiate a number of Memoranda of Understanding to be signed tomorrow.

Deep state sources travelling with Mnangagwa told The NewsHawks, which first reported on the visit yesterday, that the President wants Kenyatta to extradite Moyo back home "to face the music", while an inter-security taskforce continues to hunt him down to arrest or bump him off.

Mnangagwa's plans would be a big asked for Kenyatta who is on his way out in August and previously rejected the political request after Moyo, who is married to a Kenyan, escaped to Nairobi following the November 2017 coup which ousted the late former president Robert Mugabe.

Moyo and his former Zanu PF G40 faction colleagues, who were opposed to Mnangagwa's rise at the zenith of Mugabe's succession battle, now live in exile as they fear being jailed or killed after surviving a night raid and hail of bullets by the army as it shot its way to power.

After managing to escape from his friend Saviour Kasukuwere's home in Harare on 15 November 2017 with their families under gunfire, Moyo and his colleague staged a dramatic flight from Mugabe’s mansion to Mozambique en route Kenya. Their mysterious escape is now stuff of legend.

When he got to Kenya, Moyo, a fierce critic of Mugabe and Mnangagwa before joining Zanu PF and the subsequent fallout, remained shaken but unfazed in his fight against the President. Over the past few years, he has described Mnangagwa’s rule as murderous, corrupt and incompetent.

A deep state source told The NewsHawks:
"Zimbabwean state security agents who are part of the advance team have a mission to hunt Moyo down. Mnangagwa will ask Kenyatta to extradite him, but Zimbabwe has no extradition treaty with Kenya, so a special arrangement would be needed.

Zimbabwe's National Prosecuting Authority (NPA) previously wrote to Kenya asking for Moyo's extradition on corruption allegations linked to accusations that he and four others had allegedly misappropriated U$244 575 from the Zimbabwe Manpower Development Fund. The plan failed.

The then NPA director Kumbirai Hodzi, now replaced by his deputy Nelson Mutsonziwa, had prepared indictment papers for Moyo's trial in the High Court, but Kenyatta refused saying that was a political case to linked to Zanu PF power struggles and the coup that had removed Mugabe.

Said a security source: "It's a very serious issue. Remember that our agents previously used the Global Positioning System (GPS) to track his movements via his phone (there is evidence to that); they even texted him his location at a Nairobi hotel where he was having a meeting.