Harare: A Zimbabwean police officer has been jailed 10 days for insulting former President Robert Mugabe and questioning his marriage choice, Grace.
Police authorities said Sergeant Joseph Mloyie contravened the Police Act by insulting the then President in 2016 as “too old to rule” the country.
Mugabe was 93 years in 2016.
The ZRP claimed that Mloyie discredited the Police Service when he was arrested on March 5, 2016 at Cranborne Police Station by ZRP officers and charged with undermining the authority of or insulting the President in contravention of Section 33 (2) (a) of the Criminal Law (Codification and Reform) Act Chapter 9:23.
Mloyie is alleged to have said “President Mugabe is too old and incapable of leading this country and is the cause of the suffering going on in this country and is married to a prostitute, Grace Mugabe.”
Grace, once a secretary in Mugabe’s office, was thrust into the spotlight when it emerged that she had given birth to the president’s child while his first wife, Sally, lay bedridden due to a kidney ailment.
Sally died in 1992. Mugabe later claimed that Sally knew and approved of Grace, who was also married at the time.
A number of Zimbabweans were arrested for insulting or poking fine at Mugabe during his reign.
