Jane Mlambo| Journalist, Hopewell Chin’ono has defended former President Robert Mugabe saying he used the Air Zimbabwe flight on all his trips doing away with luxuries that his predecessor Emmerson Mnangagwa seems to be enjoying.

This follows a story published in one of the local dailies which reported that Mnangagwa blew 1,7 million United States Dollars on his recent trip to Japan.

“I flew to London several times on the Air Zimbabwe Boeing 767, which Robert Mugabe used, just after he had gotten of it from a trip. It never had all these luxuries. Mugabe slept on a make shift bed on the left side of the plane, after removing some seats,” said Chin’ono.