Source: First Lady Mnangagwa Lambasts Own Husband’s Work | ZimEye
By Paul Nyathi First Lady Auxillia Mnangagwa took a swipe at prison authorities and the Ministry In Charge of Prisons for the appalling conditions at the country’s prisons.
Mrs Mnangagwa who spent Christmas morning with female inmates at Chikurubi Prison told the inmates that conditions in the prisons cannot be allowed to continue as they are, putting blame on the Ministry responsible for the substandard conditions in the facility.
The First Lady may have quickly forgotten that her husband Emmerson Mnangagwa who is now the President was until a month ago the Minister of Justice responsible for prisons. “I visited the places where you, sleep, bath and even eat and was shocked because the place are not fit for human habitation,” said the First Lady.
She promised the inmates in front of the prison authorities and Ministry officials who had accompanied that the conditions in the prison must be worked on and completed by end of January next year. Mrs Mnangagwa shared Christmas goodies with the 180 female inmates in the prison which also houses 15 children under the age of 12 who are staying with their mothers in the filthy conditions.
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Thank you Mrs Munangagwa. ….go ahead and do good.
ZvekuCampaigner zviri kutaurwa izvo is something else. I had a relative who stayed in the prison and she came out not rehabilitated but bitter saka regai Amai vagadzirise prison to be a place for reform
Conditions at the women’s prison were already bad in 1986 despite the best efforts of the wife of the British High Commissioner. I looked around the women’s prison from the back of a prison truck on several occasions while travelling between the Max and Rotten Row. The truck was usually quite full of men on leaving the Max and the women were crammed in on top of us. One advantage of leg irons over handcuffs was that I could volunteer to hold a baby in my safe space at he front of the truck. I found the experience very calming and rewarding and hoped that the baby would grow up in a better world.