By Staff Reporter
Former minister of State Enterprises and Parastatals, Gorden Moyo (MDC-T) has claimed that President Robert Mugabe was fully aware of the obscene salaries and looting that was taking place at parastatals and other state enterprises.
“We raised these issues when they came out but nothing happened. They are known. The President (Mugabe) was aware,” he said.
“Line ministers were accomplices to the crimes so they could not prevail on the parastatal bosses,” he added.
For example Premier Service Medical Aid Society (PSMAS) boss Cuthbert Dube was earning US$500 000 a month (allowances included) while suspended Zimbabwe Broadcasting Corporation (ZBC) chief executive Happison Muchechetere was getting US$40 000 a month among other obscene perks.
Over the weekend Moyo said there was evidence that these parastatal bosses got away with these shocking salaries by bribing government ministers with luxury vehicles and that some of the ministers ‘double dipped’ by claiming travel allowances from both Treasury and the parastatals they were running.
Presidential Affairs Minister Didymus Mutasa meanwhile was quick to defend his boss saying “The President is a principled leader. I do not think he could have heard such cases of corruption and fail to act.”
