Farai D Hove| Former First Lady Grace Mugabe on a single trip this year took away $3,5 million for her personal shopping splurge while at another bought a whole house in South Africa, using taxpayer money, a report in the weekly Independent says.
The report quotes a Finance Ministry source making these revelations which will serve to confirm former Finance Minister and PDP leader, Tendai Biti’s own expose’ which says Mugabe was taking over $4million on each foreign trip. Last year Mugabe and his enormous entourage blew $53 million state cash on foreign trips in 2016 alone and more in 2017.
The report says Finance Minister Patrick Chinamasa who would always comply with her requests.
Meanwhile the source, an unnamed senior Treasury official is quoted by the Independent saying:
“On one occasion this year, for instance, his wife took about US$3,5 million during a foreign trip.
“There is also another example; the money used to buy their mansion in Sandhurst, Sandton, Johannesburg in South Africa came from public funds through local banks.
“At one point Grace also demanded that Patrick Chinamasa (who was Finance minister and still is) buys cars for her and he had to find the money, ” says the source.
MDC Spokesperson Obert Gutu also said: “Mugabe’s continued disregard of public opinion to travel non-stop shows the depth of State capture in Zimbabwe. His wife travels at State expense even though she is not a government official,” said Gutu.
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Have her arrested and prosecuted.
Those properties/vehicles bought with taxpayers money must be sold to recover the money
Very true
Article ku Zimbabwe Independent
AN advisor to government on the Ease of Doing Business, Ashok Chakravarti, has called
for an investigation into the externalisation of funds, as it has emerged that US$5 billion could have been siphoned out of the country since dollarisation in 2009.
Speaking at the Special Policy Dialogue Forum on the quest for political and economic
reform in Zimbabwe last night, Chakravarti said there is need to look into the externalisation of funds from the country.
“There is need to be an inquiry into what has been happening in the last few years,”
Chakravarti said. “So many resources have gone out of the country. It cannot just be swept under the carpet. It has to be looked at carefully and addressed.”
Thieves should not be given immunity
Va Mnangagwa ndarwadziwa kani. We want all those moneys to be paid back. That immunity you gave them should be nullified. Ndarwadziwa vana vaya vakazara nemvura musoro are turned back at hospitals coz they cant raise 200 dollars. Cancer patients are dying everyday coz they cant afford chemo. Some children couldn’t write exams or go to school coz government couldn’t help. Kana iye Mupfumira weku social welfare was always out of the country eating government moneys you return her back. Apo matadza Ngwena. Ndarwadziwa kani. There is no medication in hospitals while someone takes billions for shopping. Chinamasa is equally wrong. Its obvious ipapo aitora yake. Send them Chinamasa, Mpofu, Moyo back to their homes. Vaidya ipapo. Kunyepa chaizvo.