By Sports Reporter| Celebrating the World Karate Champion, Samson Muripo, Sports Minister Kirsty Coventry has complained saying her ministry has a messed up structure.

The Sports ministry’s commission has a bloated wage bill, as it is now run under the Mnangagwa family and the ZANU PF leader’s son in law, Gerald Mlotshwa was secretly appointed, allegedly imposed on her while she was away.

Coventry has complained before narratig  how sports such as netball have become suffocated under a ballooned structure which has a pile of hangers ons- office holders. When she became minister last year, she swiftly fired the entire board of the Sports And Recreation Commission and then went on for several months without it.

As soon she signed off for her maternity leave however, Mnangagwa appointed his son in law and a group of other appointees to head a new commission.

Speaking to the ZBC, Coventry said she has once again complained about the ministry continuing under a bloated structure.

“We now need to put proper structures in place, so that we can identify our athletes early enough to support them early enough in the process….the success of the athletes is showing us that there needs to be a better support structure in place,” she said.

Samson Muripo was on Sunday crowned world champion at the sixth Kyokushin Karate World Cup in Moscow, Russia.

Muripo emerged tops in the Veterans Open category. This is the second time he has been crowned world champion at the Kyokushin Karate World Cup. Muripo was first crowned world champion at this tournament in 2009, in the middleweight division when it was held in Japan.

He returned to the same event in 2011, in Kazakhstan and got silver in the same weight division before his third appearance on Sunday in Russia.

Samson Muripo was on Sunday crowned world champion at the sixth Kyokushin Karate World Cup in Moscow, Russia.
Muripo emerged tops in the Veterans Open category. This is the second time he has been crowned world champion at the Kyokushin Karate World Cup. Muripo was first crowned world champion at this tournament in 2009, in the middleweight division when it was held in Japan.

He returned to the same event in 2011, in Kazakhstan and got silver in the same weight division before his third appearance on Sunday in Russia. – state media/additional reporting