In a letter suspended Zanu-PF Manicaland Youth leader Mubuso Chinguno claimed that he had a fallout with national youth leader Kudzanai Chipanga when the latter received a car from Vice President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s ally Kudakwashe Tagwirei.
Chinguno also accuses Chipanga of not acting against Mnangagwa’s allies and for not supporting him when he publicly supported Grace Mugabe to be Vice-President when Zanu-PF goes for a special congress. Writes Chinguno:
We have been working together with Cde Chipanga quite well and we even used to fight and defend our President RG Mugabe and Dr Amai Grace Mugabe, until Honourable Kudzi Chipanga received a luxurious Discovery vehicle from a business tycoon Mr Kudakwashe Tagwirei (Sakunda chief executive officer) for him to engage all national and provincial youth executives to support ‘Team Lacoste’ against the President RG Mugabe and Dr Amai Grace Mugabe. For example, Cde Nobert Ndaarombe wrote a report to Cde Chipanga complaining about misconduct by the youth league members. Youth league members had chased away senior government officials and Zanu PF members, accusing them of bringing ‘Gushungo Dairy ice-creams’ laced with poison. For your information, Cde Chipanga decided to ignore the matter and no action was taken. Cde Kudzi Chipanga, on his return from the Russia trip, he was not happy with how Cde Mubuso Chinguno pushed for Manicaland PCC [provincial co-ordinating committee] to adopt that we should do a ‘special congress’ that one of the Vice-Presidents should be a woman. This also resulted in an article in Daily News, where I publicly declared that we are supporting Dr Amai Mugabe to be Vice-President when we go to the special congress. This also resulted in our fallout with Cde Kudzi Chipanga. I expressed my displeasure on VP Mnangagwa’s poisoning saga, that he was pointing fingers at the First Family, Cde Chipanga reprimanded me for that, he actually threatened to have me expelled from the party.
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