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Chamisa and Gutu might lose their cabinet posts for slagging off Tsvangirai
05 Sep 2011 at 05:02hrs | Views
The Zimbabwe coalition government cabinet Minister for Information and Communications and MDC Organising Secretary Nelson Chamisa has denied Wikileaks claims attributed to him.
The allegations of "ineffectiveness in the Prime Minister's Office" attributed to Mr Chamisa are said to be quotes from WikiLeaks website.
Chamisa is alleged to have said that the MDC-T leader is also given to taking advice from informal advisers, usually foreign, while ignoring the counsel of elected MDC-T officials.
However, in a statement to media houses, Mr Chamisa said the statements were not his direct views.
"Out of the abundance of caution, I visited the Wikileaks website to check the veracity of the statements attributed to me. Clearly, the statements that are mistaken as remarks by myself are in actual fact the thoughts and views of the author of the cable not myself."
Meanwhile, Deputy Justice Minister Obert Gutu has also denied similar comments attributed to him and called them lies that do not deserve any serious attention.
One commentator said, "There are no surprises here - we all expected people qouted in Wikileaks to deny knowledge of quotes attributed to them. In democracies members of the same political party criticise each other or even fight each other: that's democracy."
The commentator went further to even suggest that Chamisa and Gutu might lose their cabinet posts in the next reshuffle for slagging off Tsvangirai.
The allegations of "ineffectiveness in the Prime Minister's Office" attributed to Mr Chamisa are said to be quotes from WikiLeaks website.
Chamisa is alleged to have said that the MDC-T leader is also given to taking advice from informal advisers, usually foreign, while ignoring the counsel of elected MDC-T officials.
However, in a statement to media houses, Mr Chamisa said the statements were not his direct views.
"Out of the abundance of caution, I visited the Wikileaks website to check the veracity of the statements attributed to me. Clearly, the statements that are mistaken as remarks by myself are in actual fact the thoughts and views of the author of the cable not myself."
Meanwhile, Deputy Justice Minister Obert Gutu has also denied similar comments attributed to him and called them lies that do not deserve any serious attention.
One commentator said, "There are no surprises here - we all expected people qouted in Wikileaks to deny knowledge of quotes attributed to them. In democracies members of the same political party criticise each other or even fight each other: that's democracy."
The commentator went further to even suggest that Chamisa and Gutu might lose their cabinet posts in the next reshuffle for slagging off Tsvangirai.
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