Mujuru tape bombshell!

Felex Share Harare Bureau
THE First Lady Grace Mugabe yesterday emboldened her call for Vice President Joice Mujuru to resign saying she had a video recording of the latter denigrating her and President Mugabe.VP Mujuru is said to have demeaned the President saying: “Grace Mugabe is the one dragging her husband along and stopping him from resigning”.

The First Lady said VP Mujuru should leave office forthwith as she was not going to survive expulsion at the forthcoming elective Congress next month.

Addressing thousands of students who gathered at her Mazowe Children’s Home yesterday, Cde Mugabe said President Mugabe wanted people who worked with him to develop the country not backstabbers.

“The writing is on the wall clearly in bold print saying we no longer want you,” she said.

“Don’t force us. You showed us that you’re not capable to lead full stop. We need people who work. The President wants lieutenants who help him to develop this nation. Crooks and thieves aren’t tolerated.”

She added: “If she wants respect she should tender her resignation today because there’s more to come. I’m only telling you the periphery. We give you honour for fighting in the war not for working for the country.

“We chose her to represent our interests but she has failed. We’ve had enough of this stupidity. The President must hear our voice and let her go.”
Cde Mugabe said if VP Mujuru thought people would change their minds, she was dreaming.

“If she thinks things are going to go otherwise she is daydreaming,” she said.

“We want people who reason. If the President promotes an underperformer we will converge here and do the same. We’re saying to the President you made a mistake and now correct that mistake. Zimbabwe has a lot of people with the capacity and ability to run the country.”

She said offenders would not be chased from the party but would be reprimanded.

President Mugabe, whom the First Lady described as a “protagonist and grandmaster”, scoffed at those who were plotting to assassinate him adding that those who thought VP Mujuru had bagged the presidential post were fantasising.

The First Lady said she trapped VP Mujuru after several people told her that the latter was in the habit of denigrating her.

“At first I was the only one who defended her,” she said.

“I said Mujuru would never say such a thing. Some of the things she said are unbelievable. She even said I would fall into Mazowe Dam. But what wrong was I doing? My crime was that I should tell Cde Mugabe to step down. But still I didn’t want to listen to gossip.”

That is when the First Lady thought of setting a trap in which she pretended to denigrate the President.

“We were at the show sitting together with President Mugabe and her and I said to her ‘aah the President is not a good person. He is hard hearted.
“That day I was travelling to Dubai with my child for school and I came back after a week and the first thing I got was that she had said Mugabe’s wife is now confiding in me, she’s under my thumb.”

Cde Mugabe went on: “After that I told people that they should record her if they wanted me to believe them. And she was recorded, inappropriately dressed.

“I have that video, and she was saying rotten things. She was recorded saying ‘Grace Mugabe is the one dragging her husband along and stopping him from resigning because of her love for money.”

She said to VP Mujuru, being a leader meant amassing wealth adding that indigenisation was for everyone not the Mujuru family alone.

“If there was money at State House do you think I would wake up in the morning going to the Dairy Farm? If I had money I would laze around in bed like she does then just phone for my ten percent cut.”

She said VP Mujuru was trying to hide behind a finger by putting the blame on her late husband Cde Solomon Mujuru.

“She blames her bad actions on the late if it was him then why did you inherit it if it was bad?

The First Lady said no one was influencing her to say what she was saying at her Meet the People rallies.

“Some say she is influenced by Muchinguri, Kasukuwere and Mnangangwa to say these things. I’ve got brains. I don’t even have a day where I’ve approached the President to tell me what to say at rallies. I speak my mind,” Cde Mugabe said.

She scoffed at Cde Ray Kaukonde for forging his educational qualifications.

“He was born Joseph Kaukonde and staying with one Ray but with a different surname. Kaukonde was a dunderhead. He then stole Ray’s certificate and forged it then he assumed the name Ray but added the surname Kaukonde.

“Whatever dunderheads plan is bound to fail. I tried to organise a mini Unity Accord in Harare and I told my son (Gomwe) to apologise but they took me for granted and today they are falling by the wayside.”

She said no one should be intimidated ahead, before or during the forthcoming Congress.

The First Lady castigated the private media for writing falsehoods about the First Family and propping up VP Mujuru’s image.

“Daily News you can write all you want to comfort your nincompoop . Write whatever you want; we will never stop you or get you arrested but the problem is you end up writing lies,” she said.