By A Correspondent- Zanu PF youth commissar Godfrey Tsenengamu has dispelled allegations that the youths were pushing a factional fight as false.
He also revealed that another list has been submitted to the Zanu PF leadership pending the investigations.
Below are excerpts from the interview with a local publication.
OM: Can you tell us about this anti-corruption drive that you are doing as the youth league? What is its basis and what do you want to achieve?
GT: What we are simply doing as the youth league is to make sure that we push for the fulfilment of the party’s manifesto from the 2018 elections.
It was one of the key issues that we pledged to deal with. Remember we had promised to fight corruption and as the youth league we said elections are gone and we need to be working towards the fulfilment of what we promised.
The motivation is that as you look at the current scenario, we have a crop of leadership both in the public and private sectors who have just become so greedy and selfish to the point of taking everything for themselves without taking into consideration that we have other generations to come after us.
It is on this basis that we said as the youth leadership we cannot continue to look aside and be bystanders when we have a few individuals destroying what Zimbabwe stands for and what the party stands for.
OM: You named just a few individuals from Zanu PF and others. Critics are saying those that you named cannot be the only ones driving corruption in the country. They allege that by naming very few individuals, you are just trying to settle scores with those that you named. Are you being pushed by anyone?
GT: It is not true. If you talk of a youth league, you are not talking of an individual, but it’s a structure.
We have structures from cell up to the top and this stance that we have taken is shared by the whole body of the youth league.
We are not pushing any agenda. If you look at the composition of the people who were accused of being corrupt, they are being drawn from the government, party, private sector and others, hence you cannot say there is a vendetta.
We have armchair critics who are bent on criticising what we have done, but remember this thing has to start from somewhere.
Yes, we have not named everyone, but at least we have named certain individuals whom we have concrete evidence against.
We are making a call to every Zimbabwean, not Zanu PF members alone, that they also have a right to expose these people.
It’s not only the duty of the youth league. If people feel that the youth league has not mentioned everyone who is corrupt, they must also come forward and play their part by taking up from where we have left it.-Standard