ZACC was barred in March from conducting searches in the offices of the two parastatals to investigate alleged underhand dealings.
As part of their searches, the ZACC officers were targeting the offices of Mines and Minister, Obert Mpofu, Youth Development, Indigenisation and Empowerment Minister, Saviour Kasukuwere and Transport Minister Nicholas Goche – despite the fact that the officers were armed with a search warrant from the High Court, which later cancelled the warrant.
At the time, ZACC spokesperson Goodwill Shana said the decision to approach
the High Court for the search warrant was reached at after efforts to get the document from the police and the Magistrates Courts failed to bear fruit. Chiringo said ZACC had jumped the gun and there was a possibility that some officers had deviated from their mandate and were pursuing political agendas.
In April he told The Zimbabwean that ZACC would carry out internal investigations to flush out officers pursuing political agendas.
In a telephone interview on Monday, The commission’s Chairperson, Denford Chirindo, said the probe into the activities of the ZMDC, NIEEB and searches on the offices of the three Zanu (PF) heavyweights was not yet a “closed chapter”.
“As far as that is concerned, it’s still work in progress. It’s not yet a closed chapter because there are irregularities that happened and we are busy sorting them out first. We are also doing a self-assessment,” said Chirindo.
He could not give the timelines of when his commission will be through with its regrouping exercise.
“I cannot give you assurances that we will continue with the probe but what I know is that we are at work,” he said.
Analysts are on record saying that the ZACC lacks the wherewithal to rein in political bigwigs involved in high profile cases of corruption.
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