Deputy Finance Minister Terence Mukupe has claimed that he is in trouble after beating President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s top aide’s girlfriend.

Mukupe said that spokesman George Charamba is pursuing an agenda to humiliate him all because he (Mukupe) beat his alleged girlfriend at the polls.

Mukupe printed down in a Whatsapp group known as Zanu-PF Patriots, “Firstly, nowhere did the government say I made those statements. Secondly, ask yourself what was the motivation of Charamba to come up with that press statement without consulting me and even seeing the video of the meeting. It is a fact that Mavis Gumbo is a looser (sic) and it is a fact that Charamba has been sleeping with Mavis Gumbo.”

Meanwhile Charamba has denied that he authored the statement which condemns Mukupe’s military warning statements and he has directed the minister to address the person who issued the statement. Charamba told a weekly, “Who issued the statement that he is reacting to? So he is suggesting that the minister is so daft to the extent that he can’t write his statement on his own? He must tell that directly to the minister, not to me. I will not respond to other issues that are peripheral.