Own Correspondent| Former Zanu PF National Political Commissar Saviour Kasukuwere has accused President Emmerson Mnangagwa of protecting the country’s most brazen criminal cartels saying that was the reason he worked with his now deputy Constantino Chiwenga to remove the late Robert Mugabe from power.

In a statement released through his #tysonwabantu movement on the commemoration of Robert Gabriel Mugabe day on Friday, Kasukuwere said Mugabe’s removal from power on the pretext of targeting criminals around the President was a fake plan by Mnangagwa to protect his notorious criminal cartels.

“You (Mugabe) may have left us, but your vision becomes more glaring now.

“May your departed spirit give us a sign, how best our worsened state might reclaim the stolen MOVEMENT toward your vision for our “Ziiimbabwe”, as you called out to it? Dearly departed President, your vision is alive now more than ever within our disillusioned souls.”

“The real criminals have turned your (Mugabe) vision into a horror of an impoverished nation at the mercy of cartels that have corrupted the centre and kill off our hopes.

“There were never any ‘criminals around your Presidency’, were they? We realise now that they removed you because you kept their baser appetites at bay.

“You were the incorruptible barrier against the real narcissistic criminals and their cartels that have now captured Zimbabwe.

“It dawns upon us now that they removed you only so that their hardened criminal handlers could come close enough to capture the entire State’s value chain, from the ruling Party and its Politburo into government, cabinet, state institutions and agents paid off with cars and privatised salaries to allow and be complicit in the rap_e of our nation.”

“While their so-called New Dispensation has now done away with that empowering vision, their alternative preferring foreign economic interests is proving a disaster.

“It is reported that foreign direct investment has reduced by more than 60%.

“The economy goes deeper into recession despite preferred and prioritised Indian, white and foreign economic interests, to the exclusion of our black majority aspirations being condemned to being the ‘hewers of wood’ Robert Mugabe implored us to shun.

“Robert Mugabe had seen through their treacherous criminal intent on the eve of their betrayal, knew he sat at the table with those who would betray him and his vision for Zimbabwe, “Wandinodya nawo ndowachazondichera. Wana Judas Iscariot.” The 21st February Movement remembers.”