Zapu expels top official

The crisis-ridden Zimbabwe People’s Union has sacked its Bulawayo Provincial Chairperson, Retired Colonel Lazarus Ray Ncube, for allegedly running parallel party structures and breaching protocol.

Ncube, who is also the former Zipra Veterans Trust Chairperson, was served with his expulsion letter last week.

Ncube‘s expulsion letter follows a meeting of the party’s National Executive Committee in Gweru on 29 September.

Ncube is being accused of writing a letter directly to the party President, Dumiso Dabengwa, outlining some of the challenges the party is facing in the province.

“Please be informed that you have by your aforesaid conduct automatically expelled from the party .You addressed a letter to the party President raising certain issues and concerns which you claimed to have discussed with Bulawayo districts and all wings of the province at the inter-district meeting,” reads part of the suspension letter from the party’s United Kingdom based secretary general, Ralph Mguni.

Ncube was last year suspended from the party and later reinstated .He was accused of making unilateral decisions in the running of the province.

The party, which was revived three years ago, has been suffering serious financial woes and divisions.

Zapu was recently evicted from its national headquarters following a High Court writ of execution order following its failure to settle its rentals which had ballooned to $9 000.

Dabengwa has repeatedly urged party members to donate their livestock to save the party from total collapse.

Dabengwa and some members of the national executive members have also been accused of having strong links with Zanu (PF), charges which the former intelligence supremo has refuted.

Repeated efforts to get a comment from Ncube were all in vein as his mobile phone was not reachable.

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