Salarygate executives committed fraud
Our moral turpitude as a society has irreversibly worsened. With many scandals being reported daily in our media, the country is left shocked at the seemingly unending tide of one scandal after the other.
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Our moral turpitude as a society has irreversibly worsened. With many scandals being reported daily in our media, the country is left shocked at the seemingly unending tide of one scandal after the other.
Kwaito artist Darlington Sibanda better known as D2X has released a new single called “Batai Munhu” which slams the likes of former PSMAS chief executive Cuthbert Dube and others over the SalaryGate scandal that is rocking Zimbabwe.
Between 2009 and 2013 Zimbabwe’s parastatals and local authorities may have paid as much as $85 million in untaxed ‘corrupt salaries’ to top executives, tax experts have calculated.
Chitungwiza Town Council workers this week claimed that senior managers were milking the council dry by siphoning funds from secret bank accounts, from which they paid themselves high salaries.
The Prosecutor-General Johannes Tomana will not file any criminal charges against parastatal heads that were paying themselves hefty salaries and perks.
President Robert Mugabe has no capacity to deal with the issue of obscene salaries and corruption at parastatals, since he is captive to army generals running the state enterprises. These are the words of former GNU minister of state for public enterprises and parastatals, Gorden Moyo.
Events in Zimbabwe since the start of 2014 have been intriguing as they have been agonizing for many, for one reasons or the other. The talk of town of course is around the factional fights manifesting in the various political outfits within our midst.
BULAWAYO – Robert Mugabe has no guts to deal with the controversial salarygate saga as all the State enterprises and parastatals are controlled by the shadowy Joint Operation Command (JOC), former State Enterprises and Parastatals minister Gorden Moyo has said.
Quite a few commentators on the “Salarygate” scandal have truthfully submitted that the sordid malfeasance perpetrated by parastatal executives and their boards are “fake surprises”.
The failure by President Robert Mugabe and his Zanu (PF) government to deal with those involved in high profile cases of corruption set a bad precedent that has resulted in a culture of impunity, says a report by the Anti-Corruption Trust of Southern Africa released this week.