I’m ready to come back to home, says ED’s fierce critic Mandi Chimene

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Self-exiled former Manicaland Minister of State for Provincial Affairs Mandiitawepi Chimene says she is ready to come back home, reports The Herald.

In a video, Chimene says President Mnangagwa is a father figure to her, and she is not afraid to come to him.

Chimene is holed in Mozambique and reportedly vowed not to come back as long as President Emmerson Dambudzo Mnangagwa is in power.

Chimene a strong critic of President Mnangagwa fled Zimbabwe in 2017, following a coup that toppled late former President Robert Mugabe.

In 2021 a ‘bogus’ account claimed that Chimene, a former top ZANU PF leader who ran away from the country after the military coup in November 2017 was pleading with her old enemy, President Mnangagwa to allow her to come back home and “rest.”

But another exiled former cabinet minister Jonathan Moyo took to Twitter to say that the account was fake and being used by the “Twitterbots”, a CIO operation that he claims is in charge of using social media platforms to mislead people and push the ZANU PF agenda.

“This is not a Mandi Chimene account but a #CIO account for its new #Twitterbots operation meant to generate false & misleading information.

“The #CIO managers of the operation are breathtakingly stupid: look at the people that Mandi is supposed to be following, it’s a big circus!” Moyo said while he highlighted the account named “@ChimeneMandi”.

ZRP implored to enhance effectiveness as gvt lose money through litigation

Secretary Dr Rosemary Tsitsi Choruma says the Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP) under the scope of the Police Service Commission, the organisation must create synergies with stakeholders so as to enhance effectiveness and stop the continued loss of money on litigation cases by Government.

She made these remarks in a speech presented on her behalf by Head Uniformed Services & Commissions, Dhingindhlela Zisengwe, during a Police Service Commission 3-day capacity building workshop which kicked off yesterday.

The workshop is aimed at promoting discipline, handling of litigation cases, drafting of appeals & review of judgments by the police service.

She hailed ZRP as an important contributor towards peace & tranquility of the nation an ideal for investors & tourists driving the country’s Gross Domestic Product.

Her call come at the time, the government had been dragged to court by victims of police brutality, at times the state had to pay the litigants.

Last year, Home Affairs Minister Kazembe Kazembe, police chief Godwin Matanga and two police officers were hauled before the High Court by two residents of Manicaland province.

The duo had filed applications seeking orders to hold them to be in contempt of court and that they be sentenced to 60 days in prison for defaulting on paying judgment debts amounting to ZWL$150,000 and ZWL$151,191.

Meanwhile, addressing the workshop, Commissioner Erasmus Makodza, ZRP Chief Staff Officer Human Resources Admin, representing the ZRP Commissioner General Godwin Matanga, indicated that the ZRP greatly appreciated the interaction and deliberations between itself and the Police Service Commission on litigation.

Among the invited are the Public Service Commission, Zimbabwe Republic Police, Prosecutor General, the Magistrate’s Court, among others.

The Secretary challenged the ZRP that, under the scope of the Police Service Commission, the organisation must create synergies with stakeholders so as to enhance effectiveness and stop the continued loss of money on litigation cases by Government.

The Police Service Commission is an executive Commission established in terms of Section 222 under the Constitution of Zimbabwe as read with the Police Act Chapter (11:10).

Other Commissions are, PSC, ZDF Commission & ZPCS Commission constituting the Service Commissions.