Zimbabwe’s Auditor General submits a report to Parliament showing serious irregularities in public accounts in 2009. MDC Tapiwa Mashakada jumps on the bandwagon to share in the limelight.
This is indeed "the tip of the iceberg"; Tapiwa Mashakada is right there. During the 2008 elections Mugabe went around the country dishing out cars, computers, buses, farming equipment, etc. This was happening at a time when schools, hospitals and all the other key public services had collapsed for lack of funds. Where were the funds coming from to buy all these things?
There were many reports of twin-cab trucks driving around in Zimbabwe and some with no number plates. Where did these vehicles come from and what has since happened to them? Many of these where used in kidnapping and terrorising people.
I am convinced Mugabe and his cronies were involved in a multi-billion dollar racket in which they bought foreign currency from Gono using the worthless Z$. Most of the loot was squandered on luxuries and the high life and some banked outside Zimbabwe. I believe this will be the iceberg that would sink the Titanic!
Sadly MDC has really been slow off the mark; after a year, most of the trails in most of these corruption cases will have gone cold. What has Mashakada been doing all these months? Typical of MDC officials they spent months napping, wake up with a start and shout and rant to give the impression they have been working hard.
The real heroine here is the Auditor General, Mai Chari; Mashakada is only stepping in to share the limelight. If MDC had been more robust how much more corruption would have been uncovered and the loot recovered?
People like Gideon Gono are flouting their loot and, worse still, they are now using it to fight against any meaningful change. It was Gono’s paper that printed Professor Jonathan Moyo’s recent two page tripe. On Gono’s farm everything is computerised down to chicken droppings! The best chicken farm in Africa, my foot! What I want to know is where he got all that money to waste, when thousands were dying from Cholera because there was no money to buy water treatment plant and chemicals!
So Mashakada is “breathing fire and brimstone” looking for an iceberg in tropical waters and not heard of global warming! The sheer incompetence of MDC officials’ sheer incompetence never seizes to amaze me.
We voted for MDC in 2008 because we were desperate and now we are deeply regretting it. Poor, poor Zimbabwe; there seem to be no end to the torment and suffering!
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