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$40,000us for Mnangagwa Poisoning hogwash, Speculation says its Energy Mutodi Vs Sydney
Sekeramayi and David Parirenyatwa, What Happened? Cabinet ministers Sydney Sekeramayi and David
Parirenyatwa have written to Energy Mutodi indicating their intention to sue the controversial
businessman for sensationally claiming that they were behind the alleged poisoning of
Vice President Emmerson Mnangagwa. Mutodi claimed on his Facebook wall last week
that Defence minister Sekeramayi and Health and Child Care minister Parirenyatwa, who
are both medical doctors, were behind the alleged poisoning of Mnangagwa in Gwanda last
month. In a letter dated August 30, 2017, the two
senior government officials wrote through their lawyers that Mutodi should remove the
offending post from his Facebook timeline; retract his statement and pay defamation damages
to the tune of $20 000 to each one of them. Apart from the sum of $40 000, Mutodi has
been instructed to post an apology on Facebook and also publish it in two newspapers.
But Mutodi came out guns blazing yesterday, saying the Burden was on Sekeramayi and Parirenyatwa
to prove their innocence first.