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President Mnangagwa Approached Grain-Millers For Money – Musarara| BREAKING…
25 February 2020
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By A Correspondent- President Emmerson Mnangagwa approached the under-probe Grain Millers Association for funding, its President Tafadzwa Musarara told parliament today. Mnangagwa and the former Finance minister Patrick Chinamasa have been sucked into the Grain Millers Association of Zimbabwe saga, where there is controversy surrounding an estimated US$9 million which was purportedly used for the refurbishment of silos by the parastatal Grain Marketing Board.

Presenting oral evidence before the portfolio committee on Agriculture led by Justice Mayor Wadyajena Tuesday morning, GMAZ Chairperson Tafadzwa Musarara implicated Mnangagwa and Chinamasa alleging that the duo requested funding from the GMAZ to refurbish the silos which were set to hold grain being produced under Command Agriculture.

However, Musarara could not furnish the portfolio committee with the supporting documents to authenticate that the then Vice president who is now the current Zimbabwean president made the request on behalf of government.

Said Musarara:

“… sometime in 2017, the chairperson of the cabinet committee………now his Excellency the President, approached the milling industry and said that the command agriculture at that particular time was very successful, a big harvest was being expected but the silo situation was not eer… the silos needed to be funded and he advised that the treasury didn’t have funding at that particular time so we were later approached by the then minister of Finance Patrick Chinamasa who advised us that government was desirous to seek a loan from the millers ….for the funding of the repairs of the silos …..and as millers we provided a funding arrangement through a turn sheet, we signed an agreement with the minister of finance which we have submitted to this committee….”

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