News:Prof Jonathan Moyo regrets his utterances on Itai Dzamara abduction

<vote /> Professor Jonathan Moyo, who came under fire in 2015 after trivialising Itai Dzamara's abduction said today that he regrets his utterances. Responding on Twitter to questions about his comments last year Moyo said:

On Itai Dzamara, while lots has been said including by me, the scary & indubitable fact is that he was abducted in broad daylight!

So yes it's regrettable that I have said things that have unfortunately conflated & confused a missing person with an abducted person!

I've no information or idea who abducted Itai Dzamara. I feel for his family. Whoever did it is satanic because abductions are evil!

Last year, in an interview with Stephen Sackur on BBC's HARDtalk, Moyo was asked about the Dzamara's abduction and he said there was nothing unusual about the disappearance, suggesting that even in the UK, people disappear without trace.

That's very sad. We do not know who took him and perhaps those who took him and God knows where he is. But the fact that one person is missing is obviously of concern to the government and our position on that is very clear.

However, people disappear everyday and you mention one person but in fact we have quite some porous borders. A lot of people cross borders without our knowing. In the UK, people disappear everyday even those who would have been making public statements against the government there, they disappear, cross the borders and end up in Syria, with the British government not knowing.

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