Exclusive: Charges against Mzembi will be dropped and former minister released from jail

Former foreign affairs minister Walter Mzembi will be released today Monday and all charges against him dropped under a secret deal he negotiated with President Emmerson Mnangagwa, Nehanda Radio can exclusively report.

Mzembi formerly in exile in Zambia, went back to Zimbabwe last week and reportedly met President Mnangagwa at State House in Harare, although some sources later claimed they only spoke over the phone.

A source who said Mzembi had returned to Zambia before returning to the country on Friday after a phone call with Mnangagwa.

The former Masvingo South MP was then arrested on Friday and appeared in court on Saturday as prosecutors revealed he had three outstanding arrest warrants.

This meant the man who served as Tourism Minister and then Foreign Affairs Minister under the government of the late President Robert Mugabe, spent the weekend in jail.

His lawyers have argued that he did not wilfully default on his criminal abuse of office trial in 2018 but was in fact undergoing treatment in South Africa.

But Nehanda Radio has now been told the charges will be dropped and Mzembi will be a free man come Monday.