Grace Mugabe
The PDP has always held that Zanu PF is abusing government resources as witnessed by the recent partisan dishing out of agricultural implements sourced through a public loan from Brazil by the First lady, Grace Mugabe.
In this light, reports that Zanu PF MP for Chegutu West Dexter Nduna is being sued for failing to settle a US$24 000 debt which he accrued when he was using Zupco buses for his July 2013 election campaigns has vindicated the PDP’s position.
In fact this case opens a Pandora’s Box as to how Zanu PF made use of state resources in order to massively tilt the electoral landscape in its favour ahead of the polls and also to rig the outcome of the same. If low ranked members of Zanu PF like Dexter Nduna could have unfettered access to government facilities for their own use without paying a dime for it, what more was advanced to Robert Mugabe’s campaign?
While Zupco is being professional in pursuing its payments from crooks like Nduna, it goes without saying that the same troubled public transport operator must also pursue payment from the likes of Grace Mugabe whose abuse of state resources is legendary.
Last year when she went on a nationwide campaign to insult and degrade her political opponents, imagined and real, she made extensive use of Zupco buses and even now as she goes about her endless succession rallies she is using the Zupco buses to ferry Zanu PF supporters and other hired crowds to her rallies.
The PDP takes this latest uncover at Zupco as a sign that Zanu PF is not ready to institute the necessary political and economic reforms that would spur economic growth and as such their conduct remains an albatross to any prospects of full engagement with the international community, let alone to inspire confidence in the ordinary citizens. It further proves the point which PDP has made countless times that the conflation of party and state in Zimbabwe is one of the core causes of our deep rooted crisis.
Meanwhile the PDP stands by the Zimbabwe Hospital Doctors Association’s (ZHDA) call on the Minister of Health, David Parirenyatwa, to resign forthwith. His conduct and actions are not just deplorable and criminal but stand ultra vires to the constitutional provisions (section 298) which govern the conduct of public financial management by public officials. Parirenyatwa’s conduct represents the most brutal of financial banditry and as such he is unfit for public office.
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