HARARE – Veterans of the country’s liberation struggle last Saturday met with President Emmerson Mnangagwa and demanded that he
fires Zanu PF’s secretary for administration Obert Mpofu who they allege faces a litany of corruption
charges.
War veterans’ chairpersons drawn from the country’s 10 provinces petitioned Mnangagwa in this regard, demanding the removal of Mpofu and several Zanu PF top ranking officials.
The move by war veterans to confront Mnangagwa comes as the political future of the former Cabinet ministers who were recently re- assigned to the ruling Zanu PF headquarters is now hanging by the thread amid a flurry of accusations from the influential group.
The visit to Mnangagwa’s offices follows previous efforts to kick out the party heavyweights from the Zanu PF headquarters including a bold move to lock the under siege
“chefs” out of their offices.
Last week, the war veterans told the Daily News they would visit Mnangagwa so as to alert him of
a sinister plot by the former high-ranking Zanu PF officials to sabotage his reign.
The war veterans accuse the under-fire party bigwigs — who include Mpofu and fellow politburo members David Parirenyatwa, Patrick Chinamasa and Sydney Sekeramayi — of undermining Mnangagwa and of engaging in corrupt activities.Daily News