By Own Correspondent| Acting Prosecutor-General Kumbirai Hodzi has claimed that contrary to allegations that the special anti-corruption unit established by President Emmerson Mnangagwa was illegal and it reported to the country’s leader, the unit was legal and lawyers in the unit reported directly to him.

Hodzi said the NPA Act gave him the mandate to appoint officers and personnel in the unit in consultation with the Justice minister.

Said Hodzi in an interview with the State media:

“The special anti-corruption unit was established in terms of the NPA Act which gives me the authority to appoint prosecutors or personnel to the NPA after consultation with the Minister of Justice, Legal and Parliamentary Affairs.

I am the one who gives the special unit its work and I direct the team on how to do it.

I exercised my mandate under the NPA Act, to appoint all the officers of the unit as prosecutors. I, as the Acting PG, allocate work to the team and they do not report to any other authorities, including the President.”