Higher Education Minister, Professor Jonathan Moyo has hit back at War Veterans Minister Chris Mutsvangwa alleging that he was going way too far citing his abuse of state barracks and insulting President Robert Mugabe as examples.
In a statement issued yesterday Professor Moyo said that Mutsvangwa’s abuse of Dzivarasekwa Presidential Guard Barracks was intolerable.
“Abusing government ministerial office for that outrageous purpose was bad enough but abusing Dzivarasekwa Presidential Guard Barracks in pursuit of a secessionist plot is just going way too far”, said Professor Moyo.
Moyo added: “This was a gross and unacceptable abuse of a State facility.
He also claimed that late last year, Mutsvangwa availed his ministerial office to a shadowy youths who barred him (Moyo), Savior Kasukuwere and Patrick Zhuwao from setting foot at the at the National Heroes Acre.
Moyo who is also Zanu PF”s secretary for Science and Technology blasted Charamba’s sentiments saying they were insulting especially to the President.
“It is false and insulting to his excellence, to claim that he sent George Charamba, the permanent secretary in the ministry of media information and broadcasting services, to savage his cabinet ministers and politburo members on public radio with all sorts of primitive insults such as ‘uneducated fools’, ‘little men’, among other unprinted epithets”, said professor Moyo.
Professor Moyo refuted claims that he was working with Joyce Mujuru’s People First and also vowed that no one can block him from attending a politburo meeting except the president.
The statement was issued after the presumed successionist elements in the Zimbabwe National War Veterian Liberation Association issued their statement on January 30.
Moyo’s statement was a direct response to war veterans’ threats to bar him from attending Zanu PF meetings for allegedly insulting Presidential spokesperson George Charamba.
