By Jane Mlambo| Minister of State for Manicaland Provincial Affairs, Ellen Gwaradzimba yesterday pleaded with Lands and Agriculture Committee chairperson Justice Mayor Wadyajena to stop harassing her as she had a heart problem while threatening to escalate the issue with President Emmerson Mnangagwa.

This followed a heated exchange during her appearance before the parliamentary Committee to answer to allegations of allocating her son a productive macadamia farm in Chipinge.

Gwaradzimba said she got the nod from the late lands minister Perrence Shiri to write an offer letter to her son, despite the absence of documentation proving her case.

“Why are you being hard on me? Everything was done procedurally. I am not the one who issued the offer letter for the land. (The late agriculture minister) Perrance Shiri gave the offer letter. After all, the issue has been overtaken by events,” she said.

“I fought to liberate you from the liberation war but now you summon me over land issues. We liberated you to be parliamentarians and get the land but you are now ill-treating us.

“Who is sending you to harass me? I have a heart problem and am a blood pressure patient. Do not continue harassing me,” said Gwaradzimba amid laughter from the committee members.