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Mugabe knows wherabouts of missing $15 billion, MDC-T
21 Dec 2016 at 04:13hrs | Views
MDC-T Vice President Nelson Chamisa has claimed that President Robert Mugabe knows the whereabouts of the missing $15 billion.
Mugabe broke the news of the missing $15 billion diamond revenue in an interview to mark his 92nd birthday in March this year, saying Treasury had received $2 billion since diamond mining operations started in 2008.
Chamisa said the 92 year old Mugabe should disclose what happened to it.
"I was saying that in terms of the Constitution of Zimbabwe, we are enjoined by this Constitution to come here and demand answers where there are no answers and where there are questions" he told parliament on Tuesday.
"Right now, you know that the President told us Hon. Speaker Sir, that we have $15 billion that disappeared in the diamond sector but it is business as usual.
"We cannot just ignore $15 billion having disappeared and the President is aware of the disappearance of that $15 billion.
"We want Parliament to say we want the President to look for the $15 billion. Perhaps he knows where it is but we want the Ministers to be accountable for that money".
MP Joseph Mapiki of Zanu PF said the country face a huge challenge in that "we do not know the proper definition for corruption.
"Even our laws cannot explain what corruption is. We are not defining whether it is physical or mental corruption because in all instances, people end up not being prosecuted".
He said "I think going back, we have seen that there are cases that we thought were corruption, for instance in the Ministry of Energy and Power Development, during the time of (Elton) Mangoma, a lot of things happened and we thought he would be arrested. However, up to now he is free and we do not know what corruption is.
"What I alluded to in the Ministry of Health and Child Care and Ministry of Finance and Economic Development in 2012 and 2013, you will find that a lot of money was transferred into missionary clinics accounts like St Albert's and Chikombedzi.
" There was no paperwork to show where the money came from and its purpose. All this started during the GNU era. So, a lot of Ministers in the GNU should be prosecuted including (Tendai) Biti and Mangoma".
Mugabe broke the news of the missing $15 billion diamond revenue in an interview to mark his 92nd birthday in March this year, saying Treasury had received $2 billion since diamond mining operations started in 2008.
Chamisa said the 92 year old Mugabe should disclose what happened to it.
"I was saying that in terms of the Constitution of Zimbabwe, we are enjoined by this Constitution to come here and demand answers where there are no answers and where there are questions" he told parliament on Tuesday.
"Right now, you know that the President told us Hon. Speaker Sir, that we have $15 billion that disappeared in the diamond sector but it is business as usual.
"We cannot just ignore $15 billion having disappeared and the President is aware of the disappearance of that $15 billion.
"We want Parliament to say we want the President to look for the $15 billion. Perhaps he knows where it is but we want the Ministers to be accountable for that money".
MP Joseph Mapiki of Zanu PF said the country face a huge challenge in that "we do not know the proper definition for corruption.
"Even our laws cannot explain what corruption is. We are not defining whether it is physical or mental corruption because in all instances, people end up not being prosecuted".
He said "I think going back, we have seen that there are cases that we thought were corruption, for instance in the Ministry of Energy and Power Development, during the time of (Elton) Mangoma, a lot of things happened and we thought he would be arrested. However, up to now he is free and we do not know what corruption is.
"What I alluded to in the Ministry of Health and Child Care and Ministry of Finance and Economic Development in 2012 and 2013, you will find that a lot of money was transferred into missionary clinics accounts like St Albert's and Chikombedzi.
" There was no paperwork to show where the money came from and its purpose. All this started during the GNU era. So, a lot of Ministers in the GNU should be prosecuted including (Tendai) Biti and Mangoma".
Source - Byo24News
