Correspondent|William Gerald Mutumanje aka Acie Lumumba has declared that he is ready to release more damning information on corruption allegedly involving other senior government officials.
“Zimbabwe is under State capture which needs disinfection from monopoly and if you get rid of State capture you liberalise the economy.
“The economic capture is from RBZ and RBZ is a bank of cartels. The mainstream banks feed the RBZ and the RBZ cartels feed the black market.
“I will not stop exposing these cartels because there is much more information which I shall be sharing,” the self-confident Mutumanje thundered.
Apart from the Zanu PF old guard, the party’s youth league has also voiced its concerns over Ncube’s modus operandi which it claims is harming both the government and the party.
Deputy youth league secretary Lewis Matutu even suggested that Ncube was not familiar with how Zanu PF works and that he also needs to show maturity.
“Finance minister Ncube through his ‘spokesman’ Lumumba has decided to directly criticise government programmes, particularly Command Agriculture under the guise of exposing corruption in RBZ, this is unacceptable.
“We call upon the minister to be sober and responsible in difficult economic circumstances like these, to be mature and to remain focused on the revival of the economy,” he said on twitter.
Zanu PF secretary for Information Simon Khaya Moyo confirmed tomorrow’s politburo and central committee meetings but did not divulge the agenda of the meetings.
However, sources said the old party guard — which includes former ministers who were shunted to its headquarters after Mnangagwa appointed a new Cabinet — were likely to come under discussion after war veterans recently agitated for their removal.
Mnangagwa re-assigned the bigwigs to the party’s headquarters in a bid to breathe new life in government and to strengthen the former liberation movement’s administration.
The idea was apparently to emulate the Chinese Community Party’s model, which has also been adopted by President Cyril Ramaphosa’s African National Congress (ANC) in South Africa.
War veterans chairpersons drawn from the country’s 10 provinces recently petitioned Mnangagwa, demanding the removal of Zanu PF’s secretary for administration Obert Mpofu and fellow former ministers David Parirenyatwa, Patrick Chinamasa and Sydney Sekeramayi — who are all politburo members.