'Mujuru extremely flawed and corrupt'

Vice President Mujuru must face the music for condoning corruption and must be investigated to find out what motivated her to make such threatening and sickening utterances towards the media, the Youth Forum has said.

Looking a few years back VP Mujuru has been fingered in several corruption scandals, which although not yet proven due to a lack of will on the state's part, cast a dark shadow on her as a transparent and honest leader.

VP Mujuru is not clean and it's clear that she is trying to hide something by gagging the media which in a democracy should freely play its watchdog role over society.

Not long ago, the Vice President was caught up in the ZISCO and the War Victims Compensation Fund scandals and not to mention the Econet debacle in which she snubbed Strive Masiyiwa in favour of Telecel, a company whose ownership includes her close associate James Makamba, a front of her late husband Solomon Mujuru.

Not only that, Joyce Mujuru featured again in the BBC report of the  24th  of  February 2009,  and in this report she is alleged to have attempted to fund a multi-million dollar gold deal in defiance of international sanctions .

 The deal allegedly involved selling Congolese gold in Europe. A company with offices in Warrington in the United Kingdom, Firstar Europe claims that she offered to sell more than three and half tonnes of gold from the DRC through accomplices.

VP Mujuru has been fingered in the plunder of diamonds at Chiadzwa and according to a local daily newspaper Joyce Mujuru is among the country's richest politicians with an estate estimated to be worth not less than US$1 billion at a time when more than 70% of the population is poor and lives on less than a dollar a day.

She is alleged to own stakes in over 50 companies spanning different sectors from River Ranch, Alamein and Elim farm, Zimasco, Khupukile Resources, Chicken Slice, Willdate Bricks, Dahaw Trading, Benscore Investments, Wedzera and many others spread across the country and beyond.

The Mujuru family has shares in a company named ART which has been mining diamonds at Chiadzwa since its discovery. VP Mujuru knows the people behind the looting of diamonds at Chiadzwa but can't reign in on them as that might implicate her in the racket and this shows why she is not happy with the on-going reportage of salaries of top executives in state enterprise.

The hysteria and noise surrounding Joyce Mujuru as possible successor to the President Robert Mugabe is indeed a bad omen for the country following her utterances.

 VP Joyce Mujuru is too flawed to be a genuine presidential hopeful and a possible Joice Mujuru reign will not improve the fortunes of our country as she is not a genuine presidential contender. Mujuru has exposed herself as incompetent, greedy, selfish and corrupt.

As Youth Forum we laud the Zimbabwean press both private and public for fearlessly exposing salary-gate scandals and it is sad that for many years Zanu PF has blamed the sorry state of our economy on the targeted sanctions and yet the actual cause of the demise of the Zimbabwean economy is the massive corruption and economic sabotage by Zanu PF and its officials.