The report clearly shows how corruption started in high offices of authority and spread like fire across the civil service, the armed forces, the private sector and to the general workers on the streets.
The Sandura Commission Report (Willowgate) has such big names implicated in corruption that Robert Mugabe could not let the whole report be exposed after the Nyagumbo suicide tragedy. It is therefore clear that Robert Mugabe knew, by March 1989, about how the majority of his ministers he was picking from the un-elected members of parliament were nothing but a group of thieves, but he did nothing to stop corruption for all these years.
Most interesting was the case of Senior Minister Tapfumaneyi Maurice Nyagumbo, Senior Minister of Political Affairs in the President’s Office, and Mr Jonathan Kadzura, Managing Director of the Rural Industrial Development Company and other companies. Nyagumbo short-changed Willowvale Motor Company by ordering the sale of vehicles direct from the Willowvale Company at very low prices with Jonathan Kadzura receiving and selling off five Toyota Cressida vehicles and three Mazda pick-ups, making a killing from the deals. Today, Jonathan Kadzura is a well to do businessman, A2 farmer, and a chairman of several parastatal boards appointed by the President.
The next most revealing one is that of evidence from former Minister Callistus Dingiswayo Ndlovu, who was Minister of Industry and Technology and very angry about the investigation. Dingiswayo was paid a sum of $60,000 for four vehicles by Mr Manilal Nathoo Naran of Spot On (Pvt), Bulawayo. For that corruption case, Dr Callistus Ndlovu was appointed Director General of the famous Zimbabwe Institute of Public Administration and Management (ZIPAM), which he destroyed in three months time, leaving it the ghost institution seen today. Dr Ndlovu introduced all kinds of corruption at ZIPAM and was further rewarded by being appointed chairman of several parastatal boards, which were ailing.
My warning is to MDC-T that they need to read this important report with information not available for the public, hidden by Zanu (PF)’s machinery of deceitfulness.
THE BUSH LAWYER, by email