Mugabe to pay off Mujuru package?
By Staff Reporter
HARARE – Former Vice President Joice Mujuru might still get her terminal benefits almost 8 months after she was sacked from her position on unproven allegations of trying to topple and assassinate President Robert Mugabe.
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On Friday Mugabe gazetted a statutory instrument spelling out the benefits that someone like Mujuru should receive.
According to the Presidential Pension and Retirement Benefits published in Statutory Instrument 86 of 2015, Mujuru should get personal security, medical aid, travel allowances and domestic workers paid for by the State.
“The President, in terms of Section 3 (1) of the Presidential Pension and Retirement Benefits Act, hereby makes the following notice: This notice may be cited as the Presidential Pension and Retirement Benefits (services and facilities for former VPs) notice 2015,” read the notice in part.
“A former Vice-President of Zimbabwe, who has at any time since December 31 1987 been Vice-President for at least one full term of office, shall be entitled to use and enjoyment of the following services, facilities and allowances…”
These were listed to include a domestic worker, a gardener, two drivers, a private secretary, a close security unit officer, two aide-de-camp officers and use of a Mercedes Benz motor vehicle and a colour television set. Mujuru will also be entitled to medical cover and air travel once a year.
It is still not clear though if Mujuru will get these terminal benefits given remarks by the controversial First Lady Grace Mugabe in Binga.
In the rambling two-hour long speech, Grace claimed that Mujuru was not entitled to any government support because of the factionalism that she allegedly fuelled in Zanu PF.
“You know you civil servants that if you get fired, you get nothing. You will have been fired, that’s it. It’s not similar to resigning. If you have been fired, you have been fired. You know what it means, you know the regulations.
“She (Mujuru) was expelled. It had been seen that she had failed to do her job. Those who can’t do their jobs must be expelled. Those who want confusion in Zanu PF won’t be protected,” Grace Mugabe said.
