In the below video ZANU PF President Emmerson Mnangagwa has accused the MDC party of squandering Chinese loan money.

“We had loan extended to Harare City Council by the Chinese for sanitation and water reticulation. That money was used to buy cars and other luxuries as well workshops that had nothing to do with sanitation,” said Mnangagwa

READER COMMENT:

This money being spoken of is from 2014 . So this has nothing to do with this Mayor. The money from 2012-2014 period was transferred into an off shore account . The Harare mayor at the time Bernard Manyenyeni launched an investigation into allegations the town clerk who had used part of a Chinese loan meant for water projects to buy 26 luxury vehicles without authorisation from the city . Manyenyeni suspended the town Clerk, Tendai Mahachi, but the move was blocked by local government minister Ignatius Chombo.

The mayor announced the probe during Thursday’s council meeting after it emerged that the local authority has used $8 million of the $144 million loan facility from China. – Tich Mulamba