The MDC-T spokesman Douglas Mwonzora confirmed to SW Radio Africa that Tsvangirai’s security details had already been taken away and the former PM was also being denied a pension, which all former government leaders are entitled to. He also said an agreement had been made between Tsvangirai and Robert Mugabe.
“We will not accept what junior officers in government are trying to do. At any rate President Mugabe himself must meet the PM and they discuss looking into what they agreed to before,” Mwonzora explained .
He said the officers plotting to humiliate Tsvangirai were in the Local Government Ministry as well as “other ministries that deal with protecting VIPs”. Mwonzora blasted them for denying the former PM a pension, saying even Ian Smith was given one.
He said: “It is these overzealous officials within ZANU PF who want to humiliate the Prime Minister. But they will humiliate Zimbabwe. They will humiliate Mugabe because he will be looking vindictive, vengeful and very unfair.”
According to Mwonzora, the house at the centre of this row was valued at $790,000 when it was acquired by Tsvangirai. Some improvements that were made increased its value, but not to the $4.5 million that the Public Works Ministry is demanding.
Mwonzora said Tsvangirai was granted the right of first refusal and has the option to buy the house if he so wished. He made an agreement with Mugabe which must now be respected.
Reports said the Central Intelligence Division (CID) has also initiated a legal case against the MDC-T leader and his close ally Hebson Makuvise, who is the ambassador to Germany, over payments they received from the treasury to purchase this official residence.
Zimbabweans commenting on the story online were mostly supportive of Tsvangirai, but some felt that he should move back to Strathaven and forget about haggling over a huge house with Mugabe and ZANU PF. – SW Radio Africa News
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If Morgan Tsvangirai had an agreement with Cde Robert G Mugabe that between them if one looses elections will step down and accept defeat…that shall-be respectable and he was to inherit every thing…but if he do not accept elections result that is an insult to the current government…that means he will not benefit anything to the government he doesn’t recognise….Morgan Tsvangirai must respect the out-come of the July 31 election results all will go well on his Party side……..he want to benefit from who?? he refused to accept the current government so what? poor Tsvangirai……