Harare, Zimbabwe — Embroiled in a litany of sex scandals accusations, Zimbabwe’s Vice President Kembo Mohadi on Monday this week resigned from his job.
Mohadi, aged 71, handed his resignation to his boss, Zimbabwean President Emmerson Mnangagwa pinning the blame for his disgrace on his unrevealed political foes in government for making up bed-hopping allegations against the deputy president.
He (Mohadi) even before resigning, had issued a statement last week vehemently denying the sex scandals allegations, vowing to fight the claims through the country’s courts.
In a four-page document detailing his resignation, Zimbabwe’s former Vice President made claims that he was a victim of a “grand strategy” by his “political foes.”
Mohadi rose to become Zimbabwe’s Vice President after the 2017 coup that overthrew the country’s longtime strongman Robert Mugabe.
Before then, he (Mohadi) was Zimbabwe’s State Security Minister.
“My decision to relinquish the vice president post is also a way of respecting the citizens of this great nation, and my party comrades, some of whom would have been affected by the falsehoods and character assassination in the digital ecosystems,” said Mohadi.
He also said his resignation was ‘necessitated by my desire to seek clarity and justice on the matter in which my legal team will pursue and deconstruct this pseudo-paparazzi and flawed espionage to achieve cheap political points.’
Falling short of admitting his sex scandals with a number of married women, one of whom worked in his office, Mohadi apologized to Zimbabweans for “those tasks I failed to do well.”
In leaked phone call recordings, which went viral on social media, which he claimed were results of voice cloning, Mohadi was heard at one time organizing to bed one of his married lovers in his office.
Yet in one of the phone call recordings, the former Vice President was heard coaxing a formerly underprivileged woman whom he had paid tuition for in college to join him at his Bulawayo hotel room for sex.
Bulawayo is Zimbabwe’s second-largest city.
Miffed by Mohadi’s sex scandals, Zimbabwe’s opposition parties and civil society organizations demanded Mohadi’s resignation, calling for Mr. Mnangagwa to replace him with a woman.
