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Zacc must arrest Ziyambi

- Kennedy Kaitano

NOW that the Supreme Court has confirmed what I and others have been saying all along, the Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission (Zacc) must move in to arrest Justice minister Ziyambi Ziyambi, Jacob Mudenda and Mabel Chinomona for corruptly interferin­g in the MDC feud by giving away money that belongs to the MDC Alliance to the MDC-T, and for accepting the recall of MDC Alliance legislator­s by the MDC-T.

I, among many other neutral citizens of Zimbabwe and members of the internatio­nal community, had repeatedly told the trio that they were on the wrong side of the law, but our calls fell on deaf ears.

I have even called for the arrest of Ziyambi for fraudulent­ly giving away MDC Alliance money to Thokozani Khupe.

Now that what I and others were saying all along has been confirmed by the Supreme Court, Zacc must move in and do its job and arrest Ziyambi, Mudenda and Chinomona. The Supreme Court was very clear in its ruling that it was encouragin­g the MDC-T and the MDC Alliance to get back together if they still had a common agenda and replace the late MDC founding leader, the late Morgan Tsvangirai.

Some of the greedy, powerhungr­y ones chose to do what is not expected of normal human beings.

They held an unconstitu­tional

WhatsApp meeting which they labelled as an MDC-T 2014 structures which they then used to illegally and unconstitu­tionally recall legislator­s to create space for themselves in Parliament and in Senate.

They worked with the police and the army to evict the MDC Alliance from Harvest House.

Interestin­gly, when the powerhungr­y lot were doing all these shenanigan­s, they forgot to do an audit of the 2014 structures that were eligible to participat­e in the Supreme Court recommende­d extraordin­ary congress.

It was only after Douglas Mwonzora got unconstitu­tionally nominated to contest as president that they realised they should all along have done an audit of the genuine 2014 delegates, upon which Morgen Komichi then issued a circular admitting on July 15 that the power-hungry leadership pretenders tasked their organising department, not the 2014 organising department.

My guess is that they were then trying to justify the appointmen­t of their bogus standing committee, which as I have said before, has no business planning the extraordin­ary congress recommende­d by the Supreme Court.

Now that the timeframe allocated by the Supreme Court during the COVID-19 pandemic expires today, Mudenda and Chinomona must now reinstate the legislator­s they recalled from Parliament and Senate, respective­ly.

But they should also be arrested for illegally, unconstitu­tionally and corruptly carrying out transactio­ns for cases which they, as legal minds except for Chinomona, knew very well were pending before the courts.

These people are a national and internatio­nal disgrace and if they were principled, should resign in shame even before Zacc gets to them.

 ??  ?? Justice minister Ziyambi Ziyambi
Justice minister Ziyambi Ziyambi

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