The feud between Transport Minister Obert Mpofu and ZANU PF Spokesperson Simon Khaya-Moyo rose to a deadly graphic on Friday afternoon as factionalism and hatred continue to rip Robert Mugabe’s ZANU PF apart. [VIDEO AND AUDIO to be webcast on Saturday morning].
Minister Mpofu is the one who sabotaged Khaya-Moyo the Vice Presidency post causing him to lose to Phelekezela Mphoko last year sparking sworn enmity between the two.
That hatred flared to a peak when today(Friday) Khaya-Moyo said he knows one Transport Minister who was found hanged. He appeared to blood-finger the so called “corrupt” Mpofu suggesting in direct symbolism that he should be killed for corruption. Khaya-Moyo said Mpofu’s colleague in China (the Transport Minister for that country) was found hanged after being merely accused of receiving a single bribe.
Khaya-Moyo told ZimEye.com “the Chinese method of eliminating corrupt persons is the only remedy.”
Moyo said that the failure of the economy is caused by corruption, which he said has reached an alarming level.
In his address during the Save Matabeleland Coalition Beyond 2015, the Minister said some senior Government officials were highly corrupt, to the extent that the country is going down to its knees.
“Our country has become a haven of corruption and this has derailed development. Investors have also lost confidence in us, and we need to desist from this practice so as to reconstruct our ailing economy,” he said.
He continued, “I can tell you that there was one investor who visited Zimbabwe, with the intention of investing in the Bulawayo industrial area, and he was delayed for three months. He ended up getting married while waiting for the approval of his business, thereby jeopardising the purpose of his visit.
“In Harare, some of our several potential investors returned to their respective countries, after they were asked to pay a 30% kick back of their total investment. They were blocked from meeting the relevant investment authorities by corrupt and illegal middle men,” he said.
Asked by ZimEye.com on how he would personally work to end corruption. He said,
“I think the Chinese method of eliminating corrupt persons is the only remedy. The government needs to be leading by example in the elimination of corrupt leaders.
“China has the firing squad, to eliminate all corrupt officials. When I visited China a few years ago for a business trip, I complemented the railway line structure and asked to deliver my complements to the official, only to be told that the minister of that country’s transport section had been hanged the previous week, after he received a bribe,” he said.
He also told the delegates that they must also contribute to the reduction of corruption by reporting the perpetrators to the police.
[VIDEO AND AUDIO to be webcast on Saturday]