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Minister Prisca Mupfumira is set to lose her Senatorial seat and Zanu-PF
Central Committee position after Mashonaland West Province, where she comes
from, recommended that she be recalled.
Zanu-PF Mashonaland West provincial chairman Cde Ziyambi
Ziyambi said the province resolved to recall Mupfumira from being a Central Committee
member and Senator.
“We have already met as PCC and written a letter to
secretary for Administration Dr Obert Mpofu, Legal Affairs secretary Cde
Munyaradzi Paul Mangwana as well as the National chairperson Cde Oppah
Muchinguri-Kashiri advising them of our decision to recall Mupfumira as a
Central Committee member and from being a Senator.”
Cde Ziyambi said this was in line with Section 129 (I) (k)
of the Constitution of Zimbabwe.
The section states that: “A seat of a Member of Parliament
becomes vacant if the member has ceased to belong to the political party of
which he or she was a member when elected to Parliament and the political party
concerned, by written notice to the Speaker or the President of the Senate, as
the case may be, has declared that the member has ceased to belong to it.”
Mupfumira’s criminal abuse of office charges date back to
her tenure as Public Service, Labour and Social Welfare Minister.
The Mashonaland West Provincial Coordinating Committee is
expected to meet tomorrow to discuss her fate and the anti-sanctions programme.
Mupfumira was recently granted bail after spending nearly
two months in custody. She is facing seven counts of criminal abuse of office
involving US$95 million.
President Mnangagwa relieved Mupfumira of her duties in
early August on the basis that her conduct was not in line with that expected
of a Government minister.
The President has made it clear that he does not tolerate
corruption, and those engaging in it risked punishment despite their standing
and positions.
Meanwhile, Mashonaland West meets today to deliberate on
pertinent issues, including Mupfumira’s fate.
“We are basically discussing, the anti-sanctions programme,
preparations for the national conference to be held in Mashonaland East and
related funding activities,” he said. Herald
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