FIRST Lady Grace Mugabe who led a cyclonic tirade to remove former vice president Joice Mujuru has opened fire on prosecutor general Johannes Tomana.
Grace yesterday offered no forgiveness for the government prosecutor saying she would personally herself kick him out for his sin of calling for child marriage in saying that girls who are as young as 12 can become mothers.
Fingering him out as a paedophile, the First Lady said people who believe children as young as 12 years can consent to sex should be fired from their posts as they were a national curse.
Mrs Mugabe has previously said that men who sleep with children should have their manhood removed to punish them.
She said people cannot make such statements and then turnaround and claim they were misquoted.
“We need people who talk sense not to say I was misquoted. Why say it in the first place?” Grace said in her address in Kadoma, speaking at the commissioning of earth moving equipment worth $3 million and a ground-breaking ceremony for the Macsherp Housing Scheme.
“We don’t want people who get carried away while at work. If you don’t know what to say, just shut up, go home and drink tea with bread in silence.”
To wild applause from thousands of people gathered, she added: “We don’t want our country to be tainted in that way. That’s madness, and that person should be fired because his behaviour is rotten.
“If you see someone saying that [a 12-year-old can consent to sex], he’s a pervert. He’s the one in the business of abusing children because a rational person, someone who’s in charge of his mental faculties would never say that. Tinokubhutsura isu vanaMai Mugabe kana zvatisvikira [We’ll physically kick you out ourselves].”
Chronicle journalists say that after receiving brickbats from all corners, Tomana has dug himself into a hole, threatening The Chronicle, The Herald and The Sunday Mail insisting that Zimpapers was in a conspiracy to get him fired.
When offered an opportunity to clarify his recorded statement, an audio of which is online, he refused.
A furious Grace said paedophiles had no place in society and reverse the gains made by President Mugabe in encouraging children to go to school.
“After all this, someone says one can sleep with a 12-year-old. That is foolish!,” she said yesterday.
“We don’t want that. We want to raise our children in a normal way and they should go to school.”
Tomana told State Media journos that girls who are out of school, even as young as nine, should be allowed to think “in the direction of getting married”.
He said: “It’s assumed that the girl child’s independent decisions start at an age that those that are speaking want to fix [16], but if you go out there you’ll find out that some of them may want to start out [having sex] in life early.
“We’ve nine-year-olds, 12-year-olds, 13-year-olds who aren’t not in school, who aren’t doing anything for example. What are we saying to them? Then we say you can’t even do this [have sex], when the environment is not giving them alternative engagements? What are we talking about?
“… to simply say ‘no such and such conduct for any girl say below the age of 16’, I think we’ve not asked ourselves what we’re saying about that girl who would rather prefer to lead their life in the direction of getting married.”
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I beg to disagree with Amai. Amai, in his book “The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People, Stephen Covey gives the 5th habit as “Seek First to Understand, Then to be Understood ” I read Tomana’s report over and over again, until I understood him. You see Mama Grace, in all communication, try to get the concept of the discussion before you comment, lest there be a misconception. Tomana was appointed into his position by His Excellency, your husband. If you say Tomana anofarisa pabasa, you’re indirectly saying kuti munhu akamupinza pabasa racho haaisaziva zvaaiita. Saka zvoreva kuti muri kuti His Excellency vakatadza kusarudza nekupa Tomana chinzvimbo ichi.
Tomana arikuti vana vedu vazhinji vanopedzera chikoro panzira. Setsika yedu, vanasikana are more disadvantaged. They may be school leavers at 12. He is saying that our government has not put in place anything for these children to do between that tender age of 12 to the maturity age of 18. Is this assertion not true? I think it is Mama. He is saying that these girls will loiter for lack of something to profitably engage in. But they are people too, with feelings developing at a faster than average rate. They will seek to co-habit with men who offer them security. Its a psychological fact that in the hierarchy of human needs, security is ranked 3rd or 4th. It is therefore normal that these girls seek security wherever they can find it as soon as the government has dumped them. That’s why they consent to sexual temptations and indulge in sexual acts. For children in a country that has failed to look after its own, this too, is normal. This is what Tomana highlighted. He is a very intelligent lawyer to have presented this issue like this. Anoda kuti tese tinyare, you especially because maita mai varasa vana, but mostly the whole nation because we are sitting idle while a time bomb is in the making. Tomana is a deep fellow, pane nyaya apa. Sorry Mama, the ball is in your court.
Idama iro!