Zimbabwean freelance journalist, Hopewell Chin’ono has said the death of socialite and businessman, Genius ‘Ginimbi’ Kadungure could have been avoided.

He attributes the death to poor roads and collapsed health sector which he said were both a result of grand corruption by political elites.

Ginimbi, together with his three friends, died in a road accident earlier this month when his Rolls Royce Wraith was involved in a head-on collision with a Honda Fit along Borrowdale Road before veering off the road, hitting a tree and bursting into flames moments later.

Witnesses said Ginimbi was overspeeding. Commenting on the socialite’s death, Chin’ono said:

My take away from Ginimbi’s death is that we need institutions that work for everyone!

He could have lived if we had an ambulance service that worked.

The State money looted daily would have built a dual carriageway system and that accident wouldn’t have happened.

There are times when personal money and wealth can’t replace national rot.

Our personal wealth will not protect us from the consequences of corruption and looting.

Let us ALL fight against corruption by exposing it.

I don’t care about Ginimbi’s social life, however I care that his death was directly caused by a rotten road system, a broken health delivery system ,all caused by corruption and looting!

The rich should know that they are not immune from the vagaries of corruption!

There are thousands of citizens who die everyday like Ginimbi in accidents that are directly linked to a rotten State, remember them too as human beings and not just statistics of bad governance!

Tomorrow it could be you or your loved one!

MHSRIP

• Pindula