The truth about the wholesale looting that has been going on in Chiadzwa and Marange is coming out! In March President Mugabe admitted the country had lost $15 billion worth of revenue due to the looting of diamonds.
A few weeks later Ministers Kasukuwere and Jonathan Moyo added some meat to the bone when they said “a chunk†of the $15 billion was looted by former VP Mujuru.
Finance Minister, Patrick Chinamasa, told BBC HardTalk there was no looting the $15 billion was all due to “mispricingâ€! No one believed him because his ministry was still getting no revenue from the mining activity now going on 24/7.
“The Auditor-General’s Office has commissioned a top auditing firm to investigate alleged looting of proceeds from diamond operations in Marange, with the results of the probe expected by September,†reported Zimeye on 16 July, 2013.
“Ms Chiri said her office had notified the Mines and Mining Development Ministry of the “full co-operation†expected from Government departments during the audit.â€
What raised eyebrow of anyone with seeing eyes is that the looting according to the President’s admission has gone on for the last six years and the surprise is that the Auditor-General’s Office which is known for its thoroughness had failed to pick up the looting in all these years of such a breathtakingly huge amount. The suspension is that this diamond mining activities were deliberately kept away from the Auditor-General who has the statutory duty to audit all government and government related institutions.
Mai Mujuru has since confirmed that the government has indeed been very secretive about the country diamond mining activities in Marange and Chiadzwa.
“There were companies operating there like Ainjin, who sent them?†Mai Mujuru told a rally in Mutare.
“Only the President knows because there was no body that processed licenses for them.
“It was only between the President and the Minister only,” she said.
The nation awaits the audit investigation report in September; if it too does not suffer the fate of many other similar reports such as the Chihambakwe report of the Gikurahundi massacre, it has yet to see the light of day.
Still the nation knows that Mai Mujuru is as corrupt as they come; her vast fortune was not made from her singing in the Salvation Army or some such pursuit. When the whole truth of the looting in Marange comes out she will be up to her eyes in looted diamonds. She is not the only one, of course, Mugabe and others in the Zanu PF cabal have been looting too. Mugabe has used some of the looted wealth to bankroll his costly 2013 vote rigging schemes, which is in itself high treason!
When the truth comes out about the wholesale looting that has been going on in Marange, as will the Gukurahundi and all the other stories, the world will be left speechless at the sheer scale of the looting! The $15 billion is what Mai Mujuru alone looted!
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Imelda Marcos and her late husband Ferdinand Marcos are one of the national leaders who corruption and greed has become a legend. She is renowned for her collection of over 3 000 pairs of shoes and we all know how much Grace Mugabe loves a Gucci design shoes. Her foot is “so delicate she wears nothing else†she said.
Yeah right; where in Chivhu Mudhara where she grew up, did she find a shop selling Gucci design shoes? Even today, indeed more so today, you will not find a shop in Harare or Bulawayo selling such shoes. No wonder Grace is flying to Singapore two or three times a month to do her shopping!
The Marcos rob the Philippine blind during their stay in power from 1965 to 86. According to the Philippine Daily Inquirer October 1999 report they fortune was worth USD 10 trillion or 127 times more than the Philippines’ GNP in 1998. The Philippines is to this day one of the poorest countries on earth and has lagged miles behind its neighbours in the region. The country has become a source of cheap labour doing mostly the three d-jobs – dirty, dangerous and demeaning. Given the sheer extend of the wholesale looting by the Marcos it is not surprising the nation has struggled to recover economically given the mountain of the debt burden the nation inherited from the Marcos.
One is grateful that the IMF, WB and other financial institution have long stopped giving Zimbabwe financial assistance; I shudder to think how much bigger than the present $10 billion the national debt would be today. No doubt most of it would be for Gucci shoes! Still the nation is going to be shock how much of the diamond windfall has been looted.
If the Mugabes’ amassed fortune does not beat the Marcos’ US$ 10 trillion then it will not be too far off the mark. We already have millions of Zimbabweans all over the globe competing for the three-d jobs! It will take generations for the Zimbabwe national economy just to get back to what it was in 1980 when the nation attained its independence assuming the country ever gets its act together to dismantle the Zanu PF dictatorship.
It is now 30 years since the Philippines deposed the corrupt dictator Ferdinand Marco and his family but the stench of the dictatorship still linger on and on like the smell of the skunk. Unless we do a thorough job of implementing the democratic reforms I have a feeling that the Mugabe dictatorship will be more like the spots of a leopard which are embedded it the animal’s very genealogy!
The curse of the dictatorship is now in the DNA of Zimbabwe’s political system; it can be suppressed for one or two generation but will resurface again and again to wreak havoc on the nation. As things stand, we will be very luck if even a handful of democratic reforms are ever implemented to at least give some semblance of free elections.
You covered every point well. It is wishful thinking that the “truth” coming out will make any difference, these crooks have moved millions out of the country. Their children will be eating that money for many years to come. Bona, Chatunga and Peter will be the beneficiaries of those funds not the people of Zimbabwe. Likewise the children of the other looters like Mujuru, Mpofu and others will eat that money. Nigeria is still crying about the billions looted over decades from oil revenue, now one of those thieves is president again for a second time. What hope is there for justice in Zimbabwe…little or none!
i hate mugabe
Hate is a strong word but its hard to feel any charity towards Mugabe I will agree.
he killed my brother and many zanu pf are going to die by my hand
Okaaaaay…
Mujuru is a suspect, much is known about her corrupt activities so she is a hypocrite at this moment.