FIRST Lady Grace Mugabe yesterday sensationally claimed that she had video and audio recordings where Vice-President Joice Mujuru was captured speaking ill against the First Family.
Addressing about 1 000 college students and party youths at her Mazowe Children’s Home, Grace said she always wondered why Mugabe was not keen on kicking Mujuru out of office given the overwhelming evidence they had amassed against her.
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She said in the recordings, Mujuru accused the First Lady of blocking Mugabe from stepping down.
Her remarks came a day after Mujuru issued a statement denying the charges and threatening legal action against party officials and media organisations making false accusations against her.
Mujuru also vowed to resist any attempts to push her out of office unconstitutionally, saying “no amount of malicious, hurtful and false statements” would cause her to quit.
“We went for elections last year and before year end, you want Mugabe to go, that’s failure to use discretion to show that you lacked advice where you came from. Don’t take risks unnecessarily,” Grace said to wild applause from her youthful audience which in turn threatened to spill blood in defence of the First Family.
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“If you can’t accept that leadership is from God, you lose the plot. You can’t be number one in extortion, number one in corruption and number one in plotting against the party. It amounts to treason,” she said.
“You can’t remove the grandmaster, you can’t do that. You can’t fool around with the grandmaster, he is quiet but with his voice, he will have the last laugh.”
Grace revealed that after her provincial “Meet the People Tour” she felt sick because “demons associated with money that she had cast out were stubborn”.
“My sin is that I wasn’t telling Mugabe to step down for Mujuru. I asked the President if they agreed on that and he said he didn’t understand that. They say (outgoing Women’s League secretary Oppah) Muchinguri, (Justice minister Emmerson) Mnangagwa are fooling me. I have brains in my head. There is not even one day I was told what to say by the President,” she said.
“She must resign forthwith. She is not seeing that the writing is on the wall in bold print saying we no longer want you, you showed us you are not competent,” she said.
“If she is a person who needs respect, she should tender her resignation today.”
Grace said she had a video of the VP dressed in a mini-skirt talking to someone saying “rotten” things about her being greedy.
“Let’s not blame the dead, why inherit things not properly acquired? Stop hiding by the finger, we don’t want that, she must stop it,” Grace said.
Speaking at the same event, Zimbabwe College Students’ Union (Zicosu) acting president Leopold Chakanyuka said party youths were ready to take up arms and defend Mugabe and the First Family from those plotting against them.
“As youths, if it means we can go to war and hold guns to protect President Mugabe, we will do that. You can’t do anything to Gushungo.”
“Anyone who comes between you and the President has declared war. If they want war we will take guns because you and the President are untouchable and your family is untouchable,” the Zicosu leader said.
He said as youths, they had passed a vote of no confidence on Higher and Tertiary Education minister Olivia Muchena and Youth minister Francis Nhema accusing them of incompetence.
“As students we are passing a vote of no confidence in our Higher and Tertiary Education minister. How can you be a minister appointed by President Mugabe who is now troubling students? Pasi na Mai Muchena (Down with Muchena),” Chakanyuka said.
“As youths, you can’t get into minister Nhema’s office without wearing a tie. As students, we don’t have money to buy suits so we are saying he should be removed and replaced by a minister who will accept us without suits. As youths, we have passed a vote of no confidence in the Youth minister,” he added.
Secretary -general of the Zimbabwe National Youth Service (NYS) Graduates Association Absalom Madususu also said youths were ready to shed blood in defence of Mugabe.
“Even blood will be spilt to defend you. We are defending you and we will defend you,” he said.
Kelvin Murapa, the national commander of the NYS, said Cabinet must be dissolved immediately to get rid of corrupt leaders and those who care less about the youths.
The youths also accused Mashonaland Central Provincial Affairs minister Martin Dinha of denying them access to farming land.
Harare Youth League chairman Godwin Gomwe said they would block from congress everyone who criticised Mugabe either in newspapers and/or social media.
Youth League deputy secretary in the politburo Kudzai Chipanga, once aligned to the Mujuru camp, for the second time chanted anti-Mujuru slogans and said he had left the camp for good.
“Last time I chanted the slogan Pasi ne Gamatox and before I even took my seat, I received phone calls with people saying I had sold out. Today I am making another slogan and don’t call me again. Pasi na Mai Mujuru, pasi ne Gamatox,” he said.
