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‘Nxaa, mboko’ yini ngawe sibali? You are not my doctor, employer competent or privileged to comment on my health ‘-Mnangagwa responds over Mphoko’s statement
Mnangagwa, in a terse response, said Mphoko had no authority to comment on his health issues.
“If that statement is his, he is neither competent nor privileged to comment on my health because he is neither my doctor nor my employer.
“Therefore, there is no need to dignify the statement with a response,” he said.
Mnangagwa’s claims he was poisoned where seen as contradicting what Mugabe told party supporters at a Midlands rally weeks after the former returned from South Africa, where he was treated after being airlifted from the Gwanda rally.
Initially, Mphoko’s statement was not on a government letterhead, but later, officials from the Vice-President said a new letter had been drafted and was ready for collection.
“Yes, it is a legitimate statement,” Tabetha Kanengoni-Malinga, the Minister of State in Mphoko’s office, said, before revealing that the original one was prepared in a “hurried manner”.
Mphoko alleged in his statement that Mnangagwa and Mugabe had publicly ruled out that the Vice-President had been poisoned, something Information minister Christopher Mushohwe corroborated.
“Vice-President Mnangagwa’s Gutu claim that he was poisoned in Gwanda on August 12, 2017 is surprising in the light of the public record on the matter.
“No one else other than Mnangagwa himself confirmed this position at the last Zanu-PF central committee meeting held on September 8, 2017, where he emphatically said he was not poisoned.
“This was after he made the same disclosure to the politburo the previous day,” Mphoko said.
“In view of the above, Mnangagwa’s latest claim that he was poisoned in Gwanda cannot go unchallenged not least because everyone can see that it is a calculated afterthought to challenge President Mugabe’s public account that Mnangagwa’s medical doctor ruled out poisoning, as the cause of Mnangagwa’s traumatising vomiting and diarrhoea in Gwanda.”
Mnangagwa’s close relative said it was shocking that Mphoko had feigned serious lack of understanding of simple English.
“Mnangagwa was poisoned, it was not food poisoning. There was a foreign substance injected into his food, the food itself was not stale and it was not toxins from the food, this is what President Mugabe said in Gweru, it cannot be Mnangagwa’s fault that Mphoko cannot understand English,” the family member said.
Mugabe, in his public statement, disclosed that Mnangagwa had not eaten stale food and dismissed claims his deputy had been poisoned by Defence minister Sydney Sekeramayi and Health minister David Parirenyatwa as alleged by the Vice-President’s ally, Energy Mutodi.Source – newsday