Vice President Phelekezela Mphoko was on Monday kicked out of the Presidential suite at the expensive Rainbow Towers hotel.
The controversial CIO agent was pushed down to a smaller diplomatic enclosure after President Robert Mugabe indicated the visiting Chinese President needed the Presidential suite.
The move came as activists protesting Mphoko’s immediate removal from the hotel, were released by police on the same day.
Mphoko, the second of Zimbabwe’s two vice presidents, checked into the hotel on December 14, 2014.
Govt has since blown at least $151 000 on bed and breakfast to date.
The revelation comes as government claimed it wanted to cut costs and was already carrying out staff and pensioner audits, the report said.
In March, the vice president Emmerson Mnangagwa, defended Mphoko saying the government was still constructing his house.
Mnangagwa had been asked in parliament to explain why Mphoko was staying in a hotel.
“VP Mphoko’s house is being constructed and once painting is finished, he will stay there,” Mnangagwa was quoted as saying at the time.
Mnangagwa also hinted at the time that the government house being used by ex-prime minister Morgan Tsvangirai could not be occupied by Mphoko as it did not befit his status.
This was after a suggestion that Mphoko could move into the house used by Tswangirai since the former PM had left government.
Media reports in January indicated that Mphoko’s wife, Laurinda rejected three houses, among them, a mansion in Harare’s affluent suburb of Ballantyne Park worth $3m (R41.8m), claiming that it was too small for a person of the VP’s stature.
The Mphokos, the reports reveal have also refused to move into a house left by the late vice president Joseph Msika in Harare’s leafy suburb of Mandara, saying they wanted a house of their own, not the one vacated by others.