The 33 year-old son of deceased Zimbabwean dictator Robert Mugabe was arrested Wednesday after being caught with a whopping two grams of marijuana in his vehicle, the BBC reports.
Or maybe it was 0.2 grams. There’s a discrepancy in the arrest report. What is known is that Robert Mugabe Jr was stopped for driving the wrong way down a one-way street in the small African country’s capital city of Harare. Cops then said in a statement that five people in a “syndicate linked to him” were also arrested but it’s not clear if this was actually at the scene of the traffic stop.
Those five suspects were found to be in possession of 25 bags of marijuana and six ecstasy pills, but again, further details as to the nature of this “syndicate” were not available. What is clear however is that the Mugabe family has had a mixed relationship with the current Zimbabwean regime led by the old man’s former top lieutenant, Emmerson Mnangagwa. The Mugabes had accused Mnangagwa of betraying Robert, who ruled for 37 years until he was forced to resign at age 93 in 2017 and then died two years later. Widow Grace Mugabe had aimed to succeed her husband but was sidelined by Mnangagwa’s minions in some kind of soft palace coup.
Bobby Jr did however in 2022 speak at a rally in support of Mnangagwa’s party in what was billed as a public reconciliation. Guess that was kind of like a George P Bush moment that went nowhere.