Failure to act on corrupt ministers is a clear reflection that the new dispensation is not committed to walking the talk on “restoring legacy” writes 21 year old Patience Nyirenda.
Below is the full text of her Open Letter to President Emmerson Mnangagwa and Vice President Constantino Chiwenga.
I wrote this to you on both myself and many born frees that feel the same as I do.
As born frees most of us have either abstained from voting in previous elections or voted for the opposition.
After the momentous events of November 2017 (Restore Legacy) we went to the streets and celebrated with citizens from across the political spectrum and saluted you and the members of the armed forces that took this bold and incredible step to restore our captured Zimbabwe back to the hands of the citizens.
Many felt that we would be faced with a government of “same same” and when you re appointed many previous ministers to their same posts we felt very let down but gave you the benefit of the doubt and watched.
We saw you re appoint ministers with questionable pasts like Obert Mpofu, Supa Mandiwanzira and Joram Gumbo. The truth is there is no one from the previous regime whose hands are clean, so we accept some had to be left in place but we really thought with the new dispensation there would be a change of heart and ministers would tow the new line.
This we see has been done by the majority of ministers including ones with questions except the likes of Joram Gumbo. Your excellency Gumbo has become front runner of corruption and inefficiency and for some reason Un be known to all of us he seems to enjoy immunity from the presidium and is left to plunder and loot all entities he comes in contact with.
When asking elders in the party or “people close to the system” we are all told to wait till after the election and “ED” will clean things up. We can’t believe this to be true. Are we going to be faced with the same crookery as before restore legacy or are we in for the same situation as before.
Your excellency on the 30th July 2018 me and many of my generation were going to put our X next to your name and that of ZANU PF but your clear protection and ignoring Gumbo with his Air Zimbabwe / Zim Air, NRZ, Geiger, Zinara and the list goes on stealing and plunderinghas made us think twice and rethink giving you and Zanu PF the mandate to govern for another 5 years.