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(NEWZIMBABWE) Mugabe’s dig at bed-hopping ministers

Mugabe’s dig at bed-hopping ministers
18/12/2011 00:00:00
by Staff Reporter

PRESIDENT Robert Mugabe says he is concerned with increasing promiscuity within the cabinet ranks and revealed that at least two ministers had been caught in rather embarrassing situations. Mugabe was speaking at the marriage of his niece Chipo Matibiri and of Transport Minister Nicholas Goche’s son, George over the weekend.

“We are concerned with the behaviour of our ministers,” the Zanu PF leader said according to state media. “Some time ago, there was a minister, not from Zanu-PF though, who was caught with a girlfriend somewhere in Kadoma.

“The minister saw one of our security officials along the way and asked him not to reveal the information to us. However, the official told us the details and we know the minister in question.

“However, this is not to say that our own Zanu-PF ministers do not engage in similar behaviour.”

Mugabe also claimed that several ministers kept girlfriends despite being married.

“In Zimbabwe, we have so many men who have many girlfriends; even several of my ministers,” he said.

“I even know the names of some of their girlfriends. That is not good at all. When you have ministers saying: ‘I want to drive myself’, yet we gave them drivers . . . Let us stop such practices to avoid divorces.

“When you marry in the church, the law binds you to have one husband or wife. When you do anything else, it is against the law.”

Labels: MORGAN TSVANGIRAI, ROBERT MUGABE

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