Tourism Minister ordered to return Mugabe’s sugar
By Fortune Tazvida
Masvingo- Zimbabwe’s Tourism Minister Walter Mzembi has been ordered by his ZANU PF party to return 30 tonnes of sugar allegedly stolen from President Robert Mugabe’s collection of birthday gifts.
As is the custom in the country companies and individuals aligned to the regime fall over each other to appease Mugabe with gifts and his 86th birthday was no exception. Sugar manufacturer Triangle Limited donated 30 tonnes of sugar to Mugabe.
But in a bizarre twist it is alleged that Mzembi who is the legislator for Masvingo South and Masvingo provincial governor Titus Maluleke were behind the disappearance of the sugar and hundreds of other gifts.
It is further reported that Maluleke used a special hearing on the matter to deny any involvement in the disappearance of the gifts, blaming everything instead on Mzembi.
Zanu PF’s Masvingo Province party chairman Lovemore Matuke claimed;
“Mzembi failed to defend himself and he has no option besides returning the sugar. The provincial executive said looting the sugar tarnished the party image and they were having a lot of problems in convincing the public that Zanu (PF) is not a party of thieves.”
“I can not disclose what we are exactly doing but you have to know that those missing gifts will be recovered sooner or later. Whether it’s Mzembi or whoever took them, we shall have the gifts back and for sure the President will receive everything which is due to him,” Matuke told journalists. Nehanda Radio
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