Former Air Zimbabwe chief operating officer Mr Simba Chikore left the national airline voluntarily to concentrate on helping some indigenous Zimbabweans bring aircraft to fly local, regional and international routes, a Cabinet Minister has said.
Transport and Infrastructural Development Minister Dr Joram Gumbo said Mr Chikore’s departure from Air Zimbabwe had nothing to do with circumstances leading to the resignation of former President Robert Mugabe as insinuated by some privately owned publications.
Mr Chikore is son-in-law to the former Head of State and Government after he married his daughter, Bona.
In an interview recently, Minister Gumbo said it was unfair for the media to try to link Mr Chikore’s departure at the national airline with the former Head of State and Government’s exit from power.
Minister Gumbo said Mr Chikore and him had been assisting Zimbabwe Aviation Leasing Company, a firm comprising enterprising Zimbabweans interested in aviation.