A FORMER housekeeper at the Blue Roof says Grace Mugabe clobbered her when her husband, ex president, Robert Mugabe gave her a wedding gif...
A FORMER housekeeper at the Blue Roof says Grace Mugabe
clobbered her when her husband, ex president, Robert Mugabe gave her a wedding
gift.
Shupikai Chiroodzasaid the former First Lady flew into a rage accusing her of “milking” the 95-year-old. She was then
sacked.
Chiroodza is seeking to be reinstated to her old job and
enjoy full benefits that would have accrued to her from the time she was “unlawfully”
dismissed in May 2017. Newsday reports that Chiroodza was employed by the Civil Service Commission
in April 2008 in the Office of the President and Cabinet under the State
Residences department, as a housekeeper at State House. She was then
transferred to the Mugabes’ Blue Roof mansion and promoted to the position of
Comptroller 111 on June 21 2015.
She said senior principal director (Department of State
Residences), Innocent Tizora,told her that she was being placed on forced leave
in connection with a wedding gift. Chiroodza demanded written communication
notifying her that she was being placed on forced leave.
“… I then asked him to release me to go back to my work
station. Immediately after leaving his office on my way to my work station I
received a phone call from Dr Tizora again telling me that the former first
lady (Grace Mugabe) was waiting for me back at my station and so I drove there
and arrived around 1700hrs,” she says in the application.
“Upon arrival at my work station at about 1700hrs on 13th
March 2017, I saw the then first lady waiting for me, when I reached the main
door of the house where she was standing she started shouting at me and seized
me by the neck and pulled me inside the house and locked the door. She started
beating me with clenched fists shouting,‘unoda kuzviita ani pano? (who do you think you are here?)
you are milking my husband behind my back’. I did not utter a word as I was
terrified. She removed her shoes and continued assaulting me with it and blood
started gushing out of my forehead, mouth and nose. The assault continued for
about 20 minutes.
“At that point some cars arrived with some visitors, she
said to me ibva pano! Dai asiri ma visitors angu asvika I wanted to kill you
ndakangozvinzwa kuti waudza ani or report anywhere I will definitely kill you.
(Get away from here, had it not been for my visitors who have arrived, I wanted
to kill you. If I hear you told anyone or report anywhere, I will definitely
kill you). After taking her visitors to the other rooms, the former first lady
harshly said to me, ‘I want the money that you were given as a gift on your wedding and I don’t want to see you here
again’. I left and drove home.”
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