Enos Nkala an attention seeker

Zanu-PF founding member and former minister Enos Nkala has been labelled an attention seeker who is no better than the people he has been critical of over the past two decades.

Nkala, once a critic of President Robert Mugabe following his unceremonious exit from government in the  1990s at the height of an expose on the Willowgate scandal, met the president two weeks week ago and has been quoted in the media giving conflicting accounts of teh 45 minute long meeting.

Historian and author, Pathisa Nyathi said Nkala has always wanted to be in the limelight; hence it was not surprising that he made an about turn after meeting Mugabe.

"It's as if the meeting with Mugabe was miraculous. He has been out in the cold and now that he has the attention of Mugabe, there is no longer any problem."

"He has been criticising Mugabe as the main architect of Gukurahundi, but at the same time removing himself from the era. Nkala did not resign from government to show that he was against what was going on. Had the whole cabinet objected, Gukurahundi was not going to happen."