{"id":75615,"date":"2020-05-22T13:41:41","date_gmt":"2020-05-22T05:41:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=75615"},"modified":"2020-05-22T13:42:18","modified_gmt":"2020-05-22T05:42:18","slug":"zimbabwe-minister-sacked-after-remarks-on-mps-abduction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=75615","title":{"rendered":"Zimbabwe minister sacked after remarks on MP&#8217;s abduction"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignwide\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanaweb.com\/GhanaHomePage\/africa\/Zimbabwe-minister-sacked-after-remarks-on-MP-s-abduction-958165?gallery=1\"><img src=\"https:\/\/cdn.ghanaweb.com\/imagelib\/pics\/384\/38496080.295.jpg\" alt=\"Energy Mutodi\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"text-align:center\"><strong><em>Energy Mutodi<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p> HARARE, May 22 (NNN-AGENCIES) &#8212; Zimbabwe&#8217;s deputy information minister has been fired, hours after dismissing the abduction of a female member of parliament and two of her colleagues as a row over payment for sex.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The government gave no reason for the dismissal of Energy Mutodi.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A tweet by Mutodi about the opposition MP, Joana Mamombe, has been deleted.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The deputy minister has also been engaged in a public feud with other Zimbabwean ministers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Foreign embassies in Harare, including those of the European Union and the United States, have demanded a swift and credible investigation into what they describe as the abduction and torture of the women.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>They were treated in hospital after being found at the roadside near the town of Bindura.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Two days earlier they were arrested for taking part in an anti-government protest. &#8212; NNN-AGENCIES<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Energy Mutodi HARARE, May 22 (NNN-AGENCIES) &#8212; Zimbabwe&#8217;s deputy information minister has been fired, hours after dismissing the abduction of a female member of parliament and two of her colleagues as a row over payment for sex. The government gave no reason for the dismissal of Energy Mutodi. A tweet by Mutodi about the opposition [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":75617,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[213],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75615"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=75615"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75615\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/75617"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=75615"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=75615"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=75615"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}