Gono threatens to sue Facebook trolls

The governor of the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe, Gideon Gono, says he is determined to unmask and sue the administrator of a Facebook group called ‘Zim Jokes Corner’ who claimed to have a sex-tape of the married governor romping with a mistress. 

The group’s 63,000 followers were invited to request a link of the video. The group has since disappeared from Facebook. Gono said the post – which had attracted 2,475 ‘likes’ and 45,399 comments as of May 9, 2013, after going up on April 25 this year – had caused him and his family great distress.

Now the Reserve Bank chief says he will use every resource at his disposal to force Facebook to reveal the name of the ‘Zim Jokes Corner’ group’s administrator – along with two other internet trolls calling themselves ‘Mai Jukwa’ and ‘Baba Jukwa’.

The governor said in a statement: “I have become aware of a highly malicious post that was made on the Facebook page ‘Zim Jokes Corner’. The post purports to show nude pictures of a supposedly Zimbabwean woman. It has been suggested that the woman’s name is Fiona Sibanda.

“I deny any knowledge of or association, sexual or otherwise, with the woman who appears in the sex-tape.

“I am therefore challenging anyone who has information to prove that I have a current or past relationship with the said Fiona Sibanda to come forward with it including the said Fiona Sibanda herself if she exists.”

Gono said the administrators of the website had until Monday, May 13, to prove that “I, Dr. Gono and not any of the other seven billion people that are walking on this earth, is the woman’s paramour in that sex-tape” or face legal action for their “skullduggery”.

Gono said he would offer his US$200,000 personal Mercedes Benz S600 as a reward “to the first person who brings conclusive proof that the said Fiona Sibanda, is my ‘small house’ or that I have now or before had the relationship referred to in the tape.”

He said those with such proof should hand it over to his boss Finance Minister Tendai Biti, the Central Intelligence Organisation Director General Happyton Bonyongwe or his lawyers at Dube Manikai Hwacha Legal Practitioners. NewsDzeZimbabwe