Arundel Hospital is reportedly failing to pay health workers claiming that its principal sponsor Sakunda Holdings owned by businessman Kudakwashe Tagwirei is being crunched by sanctions.
In a circulating audio, initially shared by award-winning journalist Hopewell Chin’ono, Arundel Hospital’s head clinician, Dr David Chimuka confirmed that August salaries had not been paid saying plans were afoot to cover them.
“Our Financial Manager has promised that tomorrow everybody will be paid their August salaries at 2pm at Parirenyatwa. All those who worked in August will be paid tomorrow at Parirenyatwa.
“I will try to get the list of the people who will be paid tomorrow and then you can proceed to Parirenyatwa and you will be paid. In the morning, they will be packing the money and they will pay you at 2pm tomorrow,” Dr Chimuka said.
“The September money has not yet been agreed on. So really it’s quite a lot of financial strain as you remember our principal was put on sanctions and therefore money has not been flowing in as usual because of the sanctions which were imposed on our donor principal.”
Tagwirei was recently slapped with sanctions by the United States Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (Ofac) for supporting President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s administration tainted by human rights abuses and corruption.
Last year, government audit reports prompted by a 2019 parliamentary inquiry, revealed government failed to account for $US3 billion disbursed under the Command Agriculture programme, a state farm subsidy championed by Mnangagwa and largely financed by Sakunda Holdings where Tagwirei as the CEO was responsible for the overall strategy and direction of the company, as well as developing and maintaining relationships with regulators and clients.
A recent report by Organised Crime and Corruption Reporting Project revealed that Tagwirei, after being sanctioned for corruption, continued to do business by relocating his network to Mauritius.
Through his company Fossil Group, Tagwirei is reportedly receiving millions of dollars from the Zanu PF government for road construction contracts, while one of his many companies, Landela Investments, is believed to have received US$110 million from the government to import buses for the state run Zimbabwe United Passenger Company (ZUPCO).
Tagwirei has since combined his mining assets with the government to form an opaque company called Kuvimba Mining. Nehanda Radio
really!?
Sanctions must go
Succ Mukanga corruption first
Succ Mukanga as long as we have corruption it can’t go
Succ Mukanga kkkkkk bvisai masanctions achokaa pamakabvira kuita magala ekuti sanctions must go chirikubuda hapana kubva musharukwa achiri mupenyu muchingohumana nenyaya yemasanctions kunyarara mogadzirisa mahuman rights hamudi 🤣🤣🤣
Succ Mukanga mabviseyii tiwonee
Norest Phiri kkkkkkkk economy will humble them zvekuti army kombai tirove azvishande apa
Machinja saka munofara nemasanctions auraya nyika? Tichaona kuti Chamisa wenyu anoitonga here nyika yeZimbabwe. Itai tione.
Succ Mukanga Masanctions handiwo auraya nyika usanyepere vanhu iwee those sanctions are targerted vashoma kwazvo vanhu vari palist yemasanctions
Human Rights abuse kubiridzira maelections nekupromoter marules asingachengetedze marights emainverstors hakuna munhu anoda kuinvestor munyika inoti anoda anofuma okutotera zvose zvawainverstor
hakuna munhu angade kutanga buisness munyika isina mitemo isina marights zvenyu zvekuti tisu tinotonga tinoita zvatinoda ndozvauraya nyika
Norest Phiri wakadzidza chikoro cheusiku here? Most of the MDC supporters were brainwashed by Americans. If the sanctions are targeted only few why the majority of Zimbabweans suffer from those sanctions? The sanctions affects Mnangagwa or Chiwenga or the majority? Hudofo hwako now hwavapa highest level. Do you want Zimbabwe to be controlled by Americans for what reason? Who are those Americans here on earth that we can listen to their stupid satanic rights? Zimbabwe it’s for us Zimbabweans, it’s not for white people and will never be controlled by white people like before. If they think MDC will won election so that they can come back in the country to take control for everything they are believing a lie.
That means sanctions are infective .
Yet he has all gvt tenders unopposed
Lies, how come he afford to sponsor soccer
Em loot ‘ bad people’
We are not EDiots nxa!
truly speaking tagwirei you an evil coward man
Iko kwabuda mbiri ye free treatment, Angeline Marozva
Rilla Moyo
Nkosi yami
Thinks like a typical zpf: in reverse
Vanhu ngavapiwe Mari yavo
So you want sanctions removed?
Why don’t they just give him the whole country,loot and sponsor
Queen Bee…with all that money that he’s stealing, he can’t even get his teeth fixed.
#sakundamustfall