Information and Media Minister Professor Jonathan Moyo has been axed from his influential role as cabinet minister.
In a development that has left not only cabinet but the entire Politburo shivering, Moyo was told to pack his bags and go home following a cabinet meeting Tuesday afternoon, ZimEye.com can reveal.
Moyo was shown the door from the cabinet shortly after his protest against Prosecutor General Johannes Tomana. The mouthy Minister publicly humiliated Tomana over comments he made on the age of consent in which Tomana said girls 12 years old could have sexual relations.
Moyo dressed down Tomana not only on social network website Twitter, but also through the powerful State Media the Herald and the Chronicle.
Contacted for comment, sources close to the Minister maintained that the development is likely to be reversed Wednesday after Moyo had presented his appeal.
Many in the Chipfukuto group that supports Emmerson Mnangagwa’s ascendancy to the Presidium, also continued claiming Moyo was the Faceless Facebook character Baba Jukwa, despite an investigation that excused him from the allegations.
But the cause for Moyo’s suspension or being fired could be off tune because Moyo had a valid cause to comment on children’s rights.
Speaking on the 12 year consent issue, another commentator wrote,
“People should not speak in tongues when they want to state the obvious. It’s such a disappointment when subject matter experts cry foul over the obvious. The public takes what it’s given. It doesn’t concern itself on what the letter of the law states. By the end of it all, it’s your words versus public opinion. The PG was not talking to lawyers. He was talking to lay persons. They take it the way it’s given.”
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