Norton legislator (independent) Temba Mliswa has dismissed reports of plots against President Emmerson Mnangagwa saying the president is here to stay.
Mliswa who is related to the first family speaks after the Home Affairs Minister, Kazembe Kazembe on Wednesday issued a statement dismissing media reports suggesting that Vice President Constantino Chiwenga, together with army chiefs, was plotting to remove Mnangagwa from power.
Posting on Twitter, Mliswa said:
One thing I can assure the people of Zimbabwe is that they will never be a coup in Zimbabwe because in the first instance there was never a coup. It was an impeachment as I always say.
@edmnangagwa is there for his 5-year term & will seek another in 2023. It’s unfortunate that he is on his own as his footsoldiers are not working and 90% of Ministers are not performing. The cylinders are not firing& too much corruption too. Time is ticking& they need to change.
Meanwhile, Tawanda Magaisa a law lecturer in the United Kingdom has said that usually when the government issues a statement denying something, the opposite is true.
Mnangagwa ascended to power in 2017 following a military assisted transition which some say was a coup de tat since Mugabe resigned under duress.
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Here to Stay achiitei , Don’t you have shame to say here to stay looking at the current status of the country. Abuse of citizens, abductions , looting , corruption , murder . So here to stay to wipe the entire Nation. You guys act like you don’t have eyes and brains . Chokwadi you support evil instead of good things all in the name of greedy kuita shavi rekuda mari non stop stealing while the whole nation is burning. Muri vanhu chaivo or zvikwambo. ED Must Go yesterday as of 2017 ..
I think we need to lower or calm our emotions, here. Temba is right because there seems to be no other way to cut short ED’s term and send him packing. If ED must go yesterday, then let’s see him gone! I am worried about raising emotions. Strangely, the late Mugabe stayed for 37 years – I don’t know what good he was doing in his last 15 years or so of his reign! If ED can be impeached, then so be it, but the talk of coups and uprisings is just dreams by people who know they wont be anywhere near such events!