By Own Correspondent| Independent legislator for Norton, Temba Mliswa has called on President Emmeraon Mnangagwa to walk the talk on corruption and arrest party bigwigs including Tourism Minister Prisca Mupfumira whom he alleged was involved in corrupt dealings at NSSA.

Mliswa accused President Mnangagwa’s second republic of being selective in the application of the law arguing that corruption charges are only being laid against G40 members.

He accused the current administration of using factionalism to charge and prosecute G40 members on corruption charges while those aligned to Mnangagwa such as Tourism Minister Mupfumira are not investigated or charged.

Said Mliswa in an exclusive interview with ZimEye at Parliament soon after the President’s State of the Nation Address (SONA) today (Tuesday):

“The Presidents State of the Nation Address was clear on a lot of issues which I am positive the 9th parliament will handle…..The aspect of corruption has been mentioned, but there is more that still needs to be done.

We still have cabinet ministers who have allegations of corruption raised against them but they are here…they came back. We still have ministers like Tourism minister, Prisca Mupfumira, she was at NSSA.

The chairman of the NSSA board was arrested. How can you have a board member being arrested while the minister is walking scot free?

The two work hand in hand. Unless the minister is the one who reported the NSSA board chairperson, she must also be held accountable.

Decisions made by the board are subject to the minister because the minister is responsible for appointing boards so how do you exonerate a minister from the board?

If she (Mupfumira) did not report corruption she must also be held accountable.

In corruption, there is still selective application of the law where the G40 members are being targeted and one would wonder that was G40 the only one that was corrupt, yet it was the entire government that was corrupt for the past 37 years.”