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Herald Correspondent
NORTON legislator Temba Mliswa has been accused of raping and impregnating a 14-year-old girl, enraging women and children’s rights lobby groups.
Mliswa is understood to have taken advantage of the minor girl, whom he met as she sought help after apparently being the victim of earlier abuse by another Member of Parliament.
Several children’s rights activists have been calling for punitive action against the legislator who has previously boasted of fathering 19 children with a host of women.
When reached for comment yesterday Mliswa denied the allegations, saying it is a plot by his political opponents to besmirch him ahead of the impending elections.
Mliswa said his political opponents were fabricating lies against him.
“These are politicians sowing things against me,” he said.
The unnamed girl reportedly went to Parliament to confront another legislator, whose identity is still to be established, after their love affair went sour.
During a parliamentary debate on the preliminary Delimitation Report on Tuesday, Mliswa challenged male legislators to own up to their actions if they abused minors.
Mliswa interrupted the debate on the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission’s preliminary report as he sought to exonerate himself.
He claimed that when the girl in question came to Parliament to look for the Member of Parliament she was dating, she was already pregnant and therefore, he could not have made her pregnant again.
National police spokesperson Assistant Commissioner Paul Nyathi could not be reached last night to comment on the rape allegations.
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