The MDC wishes to clarify the report in The Zimbabwe Independent today about three of our ministers being probed on corruption.
The report is not only false but defamatory of our ministers. What is correct is that the MDC through a committee headed by the party’s deputy secretary-general, Hon. Tapiwa Mashakada is carrying out investigations mainly targeting illicit deals in local government.
These investigations have so far been carried out in Chitungwiza and Bindura. Internally, we have taken action and if the alleged probe on the ministers was taking place, we would have immediately gone public. We have nothing to hide.
Although the party’s crusade against corruption is in full swing and unstoppable, the party would like to reassure the nation that if there are any investigations of this nature, we will be the first to let the people know.
The mentioned officials: Energy and Power Development minister and national organizing secretary, Hon. Elias Mudzuri, co-Home Affairs Minister, Hon. Giles Mutsekwa, and Mines deputy minister, Hon. Murisi Zwizwai are not being investigated by the party for any corrupt activities.
In fact the ministers are living examples of hardworking public officers. We reiterate that we shall never hesitate to weed out any form of corruption in the MDC, but we will do that in a transparent manner.
Further allegations pertaining to the succession issue as published by The Zimbabwe Independent, are falsehoods as MDC has clear succession programme. MDC leaders come and go through proper constitutional procedures and the issues relating to terms of office are clearly understood by our family of democrats.
The succession issue is an endemic issue in Zanu PF and nowhere else, least in the MDC. Although the MDC supports a free and independent media, we would like at the same time to urge journalists to be factual in their reporting.
We respect and feel that journalists have to report the truth. We say zero tolerance and zero tolerance to corruption. The Zimbabwe Independent should have had the courage to refrain from relying on unnamed, ghost and fictitious source for its news.
Together to the end, marching to a new Zimbabwe.
