By A Correspondent- Losing candidate in the 2018 Presidential elections, ZESA employee Engineer Tendai Peter Munyanduri, has addressed recent media reports that he suffered a mental breakdown at his workplace in Chinhoyi and ended up flaunting his manhood to female workmates.
The ZESA employee campaigned in the 2018 elections by promising to give Zimbabweans bacon, eggs, milk and honey if they elected him President.
He was one of the 23 Presidential candidates which included President Emmerson Mnangagwa, Nelson Chamisa, Thokozani Khupe, Joice Mujuru, Nkosana Moyo, among others.
Reports say Munyanduri was admitted at Chinhoyi Provincial Hospital psychiatric unit after the incident at the ZESA depot in the same town, at which he allegedly revealed his manhood to shocked fellow members of staff.
“I want to set the record straight. I never did that. The reports are a mere fabrication by my political enemies. It is the work of people who want to destroy my political career.
“There are people who see me as a threat politically. They are trying all they can to bring me down,” Munyanduri told a local tabloid while at his home in Kadoma.
Engineer Munyanduri is reportedly in a spirited campaign for the 2023 elections already, and addresses people at supermarket and bank queues in small towns in Mashonaland West province, telling them he was a whizkid at school and will ensure they have milk, honey and bacon if they vote him into State House.
An engineer by training, Nyanduri says he was a brilliant school kid since Grade One.
“I was in first position in class all the way from Grade One up to Grade Seven. I had the highest pass at O-Level and the highest points at A-Level.
“I earned a scholarship from Harare Municipality and went on to shine at university,” Engineer Munyanduri tells people at the queues as he goes about his preparations for the 2023 elections.
He claims that when he started working for ZESA, Kadoma had only 7,000 households with electricity. He managed to quadruple that number, he says.
He also says he has worked for big banks and on big government contracts before eventually settling at the ZESA subsidiary, the Zimbabwe Electricity Transmission and Distribution Company (ZETDC), in Mashonaland West region.
In his election campaign message, he had also promised to appoint only two Government ministries, declared that former Vice President Joice Mujuru and MDC-Alliance leader Nelson Chamisa were incapable of running the nation.
Munyanduri who works at the Chinhoyi Megawatt offices, is alleged to have suffered a mental breakdown while at work early March this year.
Sources at the Megawatt offices who requested anonymity said he indecently exposed himself to female members of staff during an internal wellness programme.ALSO ON ZIMVOICE:Ex-President Banana’s son says Zimbabwe now banana republic
Some male workers, the source said, quickly moved in to cover him and took him to Chinhoyi Provincial Hospital where he is admitted at the psychiatric ward