Day 3 of the Zanu PF 6th National People’s Congress.
President Robert Mugabe has labelled under-fire Vice President Joice Mujuru a thief who stole ‘diamonds and gold’. Addressing the congress, Mugabe also accused Mujuru of plotting to kill him in a bid to take over the presidency. “Wanting a post should not lead someone into plotting to kill,” he said, adding that Mujuru had absented herself from the congress in the typical fashion of a thief.
Also absent from the congress include top Mujuru allies Nicholas Goche and Didymus Mutasa.
Turning to the election of Mujuru as the party’s vice president in 2004, Mugabe said: “I do not want to blame the Women(‘s league) for giving us the VP, you thought you were giving us a good person.”
Click here to Read Mujuru’s statement on earlier allegations of plotting to assassinate Mugabe
“We do not choose you to be thieves but to end it (theft) in your areas. You should never send a thief to catch a thief. If we are sent to catch thieves and we become thieves, who will catch the thieves”
Mugabe praises wife Grace for ‘outing the corrupt’ elements in Zanu PF and gives a hint on a possible dismissal of officials linked to Mujuru. “Amai Mugabe vakazofumura mhosva dzose dzaizadza mabhuku. If they are proved (guilty) they will be prosecuted…and if you were a minister, deputy minister or civil servant, basa rinobva rapera (you will be fired)….People will lose their jobs, ministers, civil servants will lose their jobs and even face the wrath (of the law) but we need evidence”
