Mugabe In Singapore For Medical Check Up

PRESIDENT Robert Mugabe left Harare for fresh “health check-ups” in Singapore yesterday — hardly a week after rejecting the profiling that Zimbabwe was “a fragile State” and instead declaring it is the second most developed in Africa, NewsDay has learnt.
Top government sources yesterday said Mugabe — 93 years old and Zimbabwe’s only leader since independence from Britain 37 years ago — would travel to the Far East for what has become a common feature on his diary of “routine medical check-up”.
“The President will travel to Singapore today (yesterday) for the usual (treatment). He will likely come back on Friday or Saturday ahead of (former Chief Justice Godfrey) Chidyausiku’s burial,” NewsDay heard.
Mugabe moved the sitting of Cabinet from the traditional Tuesday to yesterday so he could travel. State media reported at the weekend that Mugabe’s chief of staff Misheck Sibanda made the announcement.
“The Chief Secretary to the President and Cabinet, Dr Misheck Sibanda, wishes to advise Cabinet ministers that the next Cabinet meeting will be on Monday 8th May 2017 at the usual venue,” a State-run weekly paper said.
Sibanda did not give reasons, but the paper said the Cabinet meeting could be moved “to accommodate arising circumstances”.
Information minister Christopher Mushowe confirmed Mugabe would be travelling.
“Yes, he is travelling on private business,” Mushowe said without elaborating on the destination and other details.

NewsDay-Zimbabwe