Criminals Should Not Be Around The President, No Immunity For Corrupt Ministers Says Zanu-PF's Mangwana
Zanu-PF’s Representative in the United Kingdom and Europe, Nick Mangwana, has called on President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s new administration to continue targeting criminals regardless of the fact that Mnangagwa was now the country’s Head of State. Mangwana was referring to the Zimbabwe Defence Forces’ Operation Restore Legacy in which Major-General Sibusiso Moyo announced that the military was taking power inorder for it to target criminals around former President Robert Mugabe. Mangwana goes on to implore President Mnangagwa not to repeat Mugabe’s blunder by surrounding himself with perceived criminals.
Mangwana also reiterated that the arrest and prosecution of criminals should not end with former Finance Minister Ignatius Chombo and former Zanu-PF Youth leaders Kudzai Chipanga and Innocent Hamandishe. He then goes on to urge the new administration not to grant immunity to criminals, saying that this would embolden other criminals and set a wrong precedence.
Writing in the Herald, Mangwana says:
We are only targeting criminals around him.” This is what the people held on to as they awaited the enunciation of the new Cabinet. When names started rolling out on ZTV the people were aghast.
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Some of the people they perceived as criminals were now going to surround the new President and Commander in Chief of the Defence Forces. So were the people conned into believing there was a cleaning exercise taking place or it was just a ruse to buy them into internal Zanu-PF politics?
The numbers of people from the high society of Zimbabwe who will be arrested and seriously prosecuted for commercial crimes, chief of which will be abuse of office and corruption, will be the only thing that will answer this question. If it ends with Dr Chombo, (Innocent) Hamandishe and (Kudzanai) Chipanga then the people have a right to feel this was, but a big modern con.
It is not too much to expect that at some point between now and the next elections those Auditor General’s reports will be dusted and perused for any suggestions of criminal misconduct and those implicated investigated. The “targeting of criminals” should not end with the ascendancy of President Mnangagwa to the highest office in the land.
That should only give it impetus. Criminals are only deterred or emboldened by consequences. If the consequences are that one gets to keep their loot under the guise of starting on a clean slate then we are setting wrong precedents.
A slate can only be clean if everyone restores what they looted back to the granaries and only keep the fruit of hard and honest work. If the consequences are that there is an amnesty on confiscating filthy lucre, then the said criminals will be emboldened.
If the President has put criminals close to him again like the last President was accused of, then it is wrong. Zimbabweans expect justice to catch up with these regardless of their current station. It won’t be an indictment on the President if one of his current ministers is indicted for criminal conduct.
Read Nick Mangwana’s Full Article In The Herald
