A businessman has denied reports that he is linked to works of offering financial, medical and legal assistance to organisers and participants of today’s July 31st anti-corruption demonstrations.
ZimEye published an article, which was also published by several other media houses revealing that the Roy Bennett Foundation executive secretary Kurt Louis Heyns had indicated that the foundation would offer support to all political activists who will be arrested for calling for, and participating in the planned demonstrations.
It has however come to our attention that there is no such program which was being spearheaded by the so called Roy Bennet Foundation, a development confirmed by Heynes, whom this publication has earlier on quoted.
Said Heyns:
“It’s all fake news and I really appreciate the retraction. There is no such thing as the Roy Bennett Foundation and there is no such support being offered to anyone. It’s being peddled by criminals. There is no such foundation and there is no such money that has been issued or given to anyone.”
Heyns also dispelled a statement doing the rounds that one of his employees had been arrested over the disbursement of support towards the July 31 protests.
“Yes, he is an employee and works with me.. But he has not distributed any money to anyone neither has he been arrested.”
“It’s a criminal case. It’s been going on for a month where there are some criminals that have been trying to swindle some money from me. But for now, i am not ready to share it with you and i will share with you the details when i am ready.”
The late Roy Bennett joined politics in 2000 and won a parliamentary seat for the newly formed Movement for Democratic Change (MDC).
A coffee farmer who was fluent in Shona, Bennett became the MDC treasurer and earned the nickname Pachedu (“between us”), which is a colloquial reference to childhood secrets.
After leaving Zimbabwe a few years ago, Bennett migrated to the United States of America.
He died with his wife, Heather, in a helicopter crash which killed three other people, in a mountainous area in the US state of New Mexico.
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