A Daily Times reported that a Harare Councillor who implicated Zimbabwe business tycoon, Philip Chiyangwa and Zanu PF Minister, Ignatius Chombo in a land scam was now living in fear. Mugabe loyalists are not only corrupt, when it comes to silencing those who might spill the beans on them, they are ruthless.
In a country where most people found it next to impossible to do business people like Philip Chiyangwa, Gideon Gono and a few Mugabe loyalists not only survived but actually thrived and boomed. Either they are exceptionally bright and shrewd business men or women or else they are as corrupt as can be. There is a lot of circumstantial evidence t suggest that they are the latter.
People like Chiyangwa and Gono thrived most as Zimbabwe’s corruption and lawlessness soared into the stratosphere. These individuals, the nation will some day find out, that they paid very little corporate tax if anything at all and instead benefited greatly from countless scams. Gideon Gono, for example, was the paymaster of the various dubious schemes supposedly to encourage Zimbabwe’s new farmers, who are mainly Zanu PF loyalists, to make productive use of the farms they seized from the commercial white farmers. The recipients pocketed the generous subsidies and the farms still remained fallow. Gono, himself the owner of “Africa’s best Chicken Farm” – his own words, would have benefited from these schemes too.
It is ease to see why someone like Philip Chiyangwa could end up owning a fifth of Harare if he can buy land for a song and resell it for a fortune as this story suggests.
The truth about Zimbabwe’s new rich was bound to come out. For years their greed has known no limits. They amassed wealth on the back of the suffering and misery of millions honest Zimbabweans; such ill got fortunes are like house of cards, it will collapse under the lightest breeze of business scrutiny
As we say in Shona “Rinemanyanga hariputirwi!” – No matter how hard some people may try to hid the truth, it will always come out!
No comments:
Post a Comment