By David Moyo| First Lady Grace Mugabe is to finally have her way on axing the suspended Prosecutor General, Johannes Tomana.

Tomana fell “from grace” when he labelled young 12 year old girls, as women “wanting to have sex,” at a time when he was also blocking the prosecution of jailed and convicted rapist, Munyaradzi Kereke. He soon after that further fell out of the First Family’s favour when he interfered in the prosecution of CIO agents connected to a botched attempt to smear Vice President Emmerson Mngangagwa’s name – “the Gushungo Farm bombing crew”.

Mrs Mugabe told Tomana she is kicking him out. “We need people who talk sense not to say ‘I was misquoted’. Uchimbozvitaurirei? (Why say it in the first place?)” the First Lady said in Kadoma in July 2015.

She continued saying, “Hatidi munhu anofarisa kana aripabasa. Kana usingazive zvekutaura, vhara muromo wako uende kumba kwako unwe tea nechingwa unyarare (We don’t want people who get carried away while at work. If you don’t know what to say, just shut up, go home and drink tea with bread in silence.)”

She added: “We don’t want our country to be tainted in that way. That’s madness, and that person should be fired because his behaviour is rotten.

“Mukaona munhu anodaro ibhinya, ndiye ari kuita basa rekubhinya vanhu nekuti munhu musvinu, anemwana musikana, anepfungwa chaidzo haadaro.

“Tinokubhutsura isu vanaMai Mugabe kana zvatisvikira (If you see someone saying that [a 12-year-old can consent to sex], he’s a pervert. He’s the one in the business of abusing children because a rational person, someone who’s in charge of his mental faculties would never say that. We’ll kick you out).”

With a tribunal appointed by President Mugabe completing its work on Tomana, it has now surfaced that his days are numbered.

Tribunal completes work.

The state media reports that the tribunal appointed to examine Tomana’s fitness to hold the post has completed its task, and will soon submit its determination to President Mugabe.

Mr Tomana was suspended in July 2016 over various allegations, among them criminal abuse of office and gross incompetence that compromised justice.

President Mugabe subsequently appointed the tribunal headed by Justice Moses Chinhengo on the Judicial Services Commission’s recommendation.

The panel, which also has University of Zimbabwe Dean of Law Mr Emmanuel Magade and Harare lawyer Mr Melina Matshiya, exceeded its time line to accommodate all hearings.

Secretary for Justice, Legal and Parliamentary Affairs Mrs Virginia Mabhiza told The Sunday Mail, “The tribunal completed all the work that it was mandated to do by the deadline of March 31. They managed to come up with a report of their findings, and will seek audience with Vice-Pesident (Emmerson) Mnangagwa in his capacity as Minister Responsible for Justice, Legal and Parliamentary Affairs.

“Thereafter, the report will be submitted to the President who will then have the final word on the course of action to be taken in the matter.”

At least 23 witnesses, including Mr Tomana; his deputies; public prosecutors and lawyers in private practice, testified before the tribunal.

One of the cases Justice Chinhengo and Co. considered involves Mr Tomana’s alleged refusal to issue a private prosecution certificate to Mr Francis Maramwidze in keeping with a High Court order of May 14 2014.

The case concerned former Bikita West legislator and Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe official Mr Munyaradzi Kereke who has since been jailed for raping his 11-year-old niece.

Other charges cover failure to facilitate prosecution in high-profile cases, including one in which telecommunications firm Telecel Zimbabwe wanted its former director, Jane Mutasa, prosecuted for fraud.

Further, Mr Tomana faces a charge of criminal abuse of office or, alternatively, obstructing the course of justice for allegedly ordering withdrawal of charges against two men suspected of trying to petrol bomb the First Family’s Gushungo Dairy in Mazowe in January 2016.

Mr Tomana has been arrested over some of the cases, which are now before the courts.

As PG, he enjoyed the status of judge, and joins the ranks of Justices Anthony Blackie and Benjamin Paradza who were at one point hauled before tribunals.