MUKUPE TORCHES ANOTHER STORM

Terence Mukupe has torched another storm as he boasted that he had defeated George Charamba's lover in Zanu PF primaries. Mukupe fum...

Terence Mukupe has torched another storm as he boasted that he had defeated George Charamba's lover in Zanu PF primaries.

Mukupe fumed after Minister S K Moyo issued a statement distancing the government from his comments on the army. Mukupe said Charamba had authored the statement.

“Firstly, nowhere did the government say I made those statements,” he said.“Secondly, ask yourself what was the motivation of Charamba to come up with that press statement without consulting me and even seeing the video,” said Mukupe.

"It is a fact that Mavis Gumbo is a looser (sic) and it is a fact that Charamba has been sleeping with Mavis Gumbo.”

Mukupe was speaking in a WhatsApp Group.

Mukupe did not respond to questions sent to him on the matter by the Standard. Charamba said he was not the author of Moyo’s statement condemning the deputy minister’s utterances.

The president’s spokesperson retorted: “Who issued the statement that he is reacting to? So he is suggesting that the minister is so daft to the extent that he can’t write his statement on his own?

“He must tell that directly to the minister, not to me. I will not respond to other issues that are peripheral.

“If he thinks the minister has no capacity to respond on behalf of government, then he is suggesting something else, which I cannot respond to.”

On the other hand, Gumbo said although she was aware of the WhatsApp messages, she was not interested in a fight with Mukupe.