State House director fired

PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa has fired principal director of State residences, Innocent Dzapasi Tizora, amid reports that more heads will roll within his office as the purge of former President Robert Mugabe’s aides continues.

Local Government minister July Moyo disclosed at the weekend that Tizora had been replaced by Zanu PF Midlands central committee member Douglas Tapfuma, who assumed his new duties yesterday.

“With us, we have the just appointed, he is still brand new, the senior principal director, State House in the President’s Office,” Moyo said, as he introduced Tapfuma during the installation of Chief Samuel Samambwa in Zhombe on Saturday.

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