LOCAL Government deputy minister Christopher Chingosho has
threatened to sue Zanu PF Manicaland provincial youth leader Mubuso Chinguno
for allegedly accusing him of bribing the ruling party’s youths with beer to
push for Samuel Undenge’s ouster as provincial chairman.
This follows an ugly scene which occurred two weeks ago
during a Zanu PF inter-district meeting, where rowdy youths demanded fresh
elections for the chairperson, claiming Undenge had been imposed on the
provincial executive.
Addressing journalists after the meeting, Chinguno claimed
Chingosho had bribed the youths with beer to cause disunity in the province.
But Chingosho yesterday challenged Chinguno to prove his
claims or face legal action. “He just wants to tarnish my image and I want him
to prove that I paid the youths and bought them beer or else I am going to sue
him,” he said.
“It’s now too much, I don’t know why he is always attacking
me. “I am not going to force him to apologise if he doesn’t want.
“I am very serious on this matter, because these people he
is saying I paid are mature people.”
Chingosho insisted that the province required substantive
leaders, saying co-opted provincial executives like Undenge, Chinguno and
women’s league boss Estere Mlambo Madhuku were destabilising the party.
Contacted for comment, Chinguno said he would not lose
sleep over Chingosho’s threat to sue. “We know Chingosho is driving a certain factional agenda,”
he hit back.
“His head is now glued on (Team) Lacoste and we know he
wants to destabilise the party by putting people who drive his agenda.
“On the issue of him suing me, I am not intimidated. I am
ready to rot in jail, so I am saying to him go on, bring it on and we will see
from there.”
This is not the first time Chingosho has publicly clashed
with Zanu PF youths.
Early this year at a provincial co-ordinating committee
meeting, Chingosho was manhandled and publicly humiliated by scores of youths,
who accused him of fuelling divisions in the province. newsday
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