HARARE – Former Finance Minister Tendai Biti has called for a forensic investigation into the alleged looting of billions of dollars through Sakunda Holdings, linking the company to deep-seated corruption within Zimbabwe’s ruling Zanu PF. His remarks come just days after Vice President Constantino Chiwenga reportedly stunned a politburo meeting with claims that the party secretly holds a stake in the fuel and energy giant, the company which is widely known to be owned by controversial tenderpreneur and President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s close ally Kudakwashe Tagwirei. Biti, a senior opposition figure who has been vocal about how Sakunda has been looting state resources through agriculture contracts during his time in Parliament, accused Zanu-PF of abandoning its liberation legacy, describing the party as “commodified” and controlled by “gangsters, pretenders and commodity brokers” driven by personal enrichment.
“It is absolutely regrettable and sad that the Liberation Movement, the party of Herbert Wiltshire Chitepo, Leopold Takawira and Edgar Two Boy Tekere has been commodified and reduced to a rug tag aberration,” Biti stated. “It is run by gangsters, pretenders and commodity brokers with an insatiable quest of self aggrandizement and self enrichment. “They offer no pretense to decency or any value system.
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