[Daily Nation (Kenya)] Zim-bob-we President Bob MuggsyMugabe
Octogenarian President-for-Life of Zim-bob-we who turned the former Breadbasket of Africa into the African Basket Case...
sleeps at crucial meetings and has become a liability for the country, one of his ministers has said.
Professor Welshman Ncube who leads of one of the two Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) formations said the 88 year-old leader slept at the recent Southern African Development Community (SADC) summit in Mozambique.
Prof Ncube told party supporters that President Mugabe had to be roused by Zambian President Michael Sata after he fell asleep a few minutes after the meeting that was meant to discuss the Zim-bob-we crisis began.
"The question is not about the retention of Mugabe, even at the SADC meetings he sleeps," Prof Ncube said. "If you are strong and young, you sleep in a dignified way but his whole body collapses when he sleeps.
"You sleep to a point that you are woken up by an equally old Sata as early as 9 am, who would tell other leaders that let us wake Mugabe he is sleeping. "You think that person can rule Zim-bob-we. We need fresh leaders with power and strength who do you do not have to look at and check if they are still awake."
President Mugabe, 87 has been in power since Zim-bob-we's independence from Britannia in 1980.
There have been reports that he is battling advanced prostate cancer and several other chronic ailments.
In April there were even reports he had died while receiving treatment at a Singapore hospital.
But he often scoffs at reports about his death joking that he has resurrected more times than Jesus Christ.