Togarepi warns ‘absentee’ Zanu-PF MPs, ministers

GOVERNMENT ministers and Zanu-PF Members of Parliament who snub party programmes and events risk losing their positions, Zanu-PF secretary for Youth Affairs and party Chief Chip Cde Pupurai Togarepi ( has warned.

Speaking at the Zanu-PF National Youth Assembly meeting held at the party’s headquarters in Harare last week, Cde Togarepi said ministers and MPs should not forget that it is their party credentials which got them into those offices.

“We now have Government officials who are now sabotaging the party and do not want to engage in party events ever since they took up Government posts. Instead, they prefer to propagate their own individual agendas and lining their pockets.

“They do not want to attend party programmes that promote the President’s vision, they always give excuses forgetting that it is the party that led to them getting appointed into those Government offices.

“These are some of the people who are working against the vision of the President and would want to see Vision 2030 fail to materialise. So if they keep this up they will be expelled from their leadership positions,” said Cde Togarepi.

Cde Togarepi also commended President Mnangagwa, who was in attendance, for appointing a considerable number of youths into Cabinet, something that not happen under the previous administration.

“For the past two days we have been meeting and discussing the socio-economic issues affecting us as youths.

Meanwhile, the party’s Youth League will be embarking on a chicken rearing project which will see each province receiving 10 000 chicks as seed capital.

“The Youth League will be embarking on a chicken project which will see 10 000 chicks being given to every province and we have already sourced a market for them in China,” said Cde Togarepi.