Zanu PF national chairperson Oppah Muchinguri yesterday
admitted that the ruling party has been hijacked by high-profile criminals
using the party name and their proximity to the centre of power for
self-enrichment.
Speaking during the party’s 18th annual conference at
Goromonzi High School, Muchinguri said it was high time the party weeded out
corrupt elements and instil discipline across its structures.
“We are saying, as Zanu PF, we are the face of the nation.
There is too much indiscipline. Some are on the black market saying we are Zanu
PF, while others are invading mining claims in the name of the party. We need
discipline so that we don’t drag our party (name) into disrepute,” she said.
“We have thieves hoarding basic commodities, they need to
be monitored, we have thieves hoarding goods and selling them at high prices.
Moreover, medicine is being sold at high prices, we have no drinking water and
some of the hospitals are closed,” she said.
Ruling party elites have also been accused of invading
mining claims and sponsoring machete wars for their benefit.
Several top Zanu PF officials were recently implicated in a
State-sanctioned land audit report presented to President Emmerson Mnangagwa
early this week.
Addressing party delegates, Mnangagwa said: “I have since
received the report of the Commission of Inquiry into the sale of urban State
land, which revealed glaring excesses and acts of corruption by land barons and
their cohorts. As a party, we will not accept a situation where our people live
in squalid conditions 39 years after independence, as a result of being
swindled out of their hard-earned money by these criminal elements.”
He pledged to ensure all people implicated in the audit
report were brought to book.
“Those implicated in the commission report must be brought
to book without fear or favour. We are a disciplined, principled and ethical
party. We always advance the rights and interests of the majority of the
people,” he said.
Muchinguri, who is also Defence minister, assured Mnangagwa
that he remained Zanu PF’s sole candidate for the 2023 general elections and
that the party was already in election mode.
“You are the sole candidate for 2023 and this has been
endorsed by the slogan ED:2023 Pfee! This will spread across the country. Your
people are already in election mode, they are already campaigning for 2023,”
she said. Newsday
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