Mutasa caught red-handed by our Joyce

distract attention from themselves. For example:
When Didymus Mutasa was busy threatening to shoot demonstrators and generally making a nuisance of himself a few weeks back, he was actually looting from Kondozi Farm, a once-thriving horticultural enterprise which used to earn Zimbabwe US$15 million a year and employed over 5000 people. Today that farm is lying derelict. When the enterprising young owner, Ed Moyo was forcibly ejected from the farm by minister of agricultural Joseph Made at the height of the land-grab, he had to leave behind a mountain of equipment – including tractors, motor cycles, irrigation piping, and so on.
But today, guess what? That equipment is nowhere to be found on Kondozi Farm. But it has surfaced, some of it at least. Guess where? On the farm of one Didymus Mutasa. Not to be outdone, Joseph Made has also helped himself to some of it, while another Mugabe crony Christopher Mushowe, minister of transport and communications, has given a good home to some of the tractors.
This interesting information only emerged recently, when vice president Joyce Mujuru, accompanied by six other ministers, paid a visit to Kondozi Farm to see how the land-reform programme was working on the ground. She was shocked.
Looking about her at the once-fertile acres and seeing only a pathetic maize crop, the feisty VP demanded an explanation from the new foreman, none other than ZNA colonel Ronnie Mutizhe, deputy commander of 3 Brigade in Mutare.
“The maize wilted because we no longer have irrigation equipment,” said the colonel.
“What happened to the equipment?” spat the VP (That one is a tough cookie, I tell you.)
“It is not something I can say in public, your Excellency,” quavered the colonel. “I need to discuss it with you in private.”
“I want you to tell me now what happened to the equipment. I am the vice president,” came the cookie’s stern reply, tv cameras rolling.
“The pump was taken by Mushowe and Nyathi took the tractors,” whispered the colonel.
“Who is Nyathi – I don’t know that name?” bellowed the VP.
“It is the minister of intelligence, your Excellency,” stuttered the colonel.
And the whole sorry tale came pouring out. It emerged that even the provincial government, Tinaye Chigudu, had helped himself to some tractors too.
“We are not able to do much on this farm,” concluded the wilted colonel.
Mujuru then told the crowd that such behaviour was unacceptable and she would take measures to ensure that the means of production were restored.
Another Zanu official, deputy minister for youth, Saviour Kasukuwere, professed himself shocked at the looting.
“If it had been small fish that had taken this equipment, they would have been jailed and even denied bail, your Excellency,” said Kasukuwere. “But it’s the chiefs, and
nothing will ever happen to them.”
Emboldened by the VP’s outrage, women’s affairs minister Oppah Muchinguri then weighed in, declaring that the farm was in a deplorable state because of greed, adding that she was shocked her peers had destroyed a previously vibrant property.
We now wait with baited breath to see Didymus Mutasa and others hauled before the courts for theft, corruption and sabotage of the economy.