Opinion / Columnist
Charamba cum Manheru dismiss Mujuru purge as political when he is next - will NOT be missed!
27 Nov 2014 at 21:06hrs | Views
Secretary for Information and President Robert Mugabe's spokesman George Charamba yesterday dismissed an assortment of allegations levelled against Vice-President Joice Mujuru and other ministers, describing them as mere political allegations with no legal ramifications.
"Political issues that turn legal are only realised when there is the involvement of the police or Attorney-General," he said.
"All that is happening now is in the political domain and all this will end when successful politicians emerge. It is a political process, it becomes a legal issue when the judiciary is involved."
Following the Cashgate Dube scandal at PSMAS where George Charamba was named as one of the directors who had been milking the system it was clear that our friend was in the Mujuru faction, "wrong basket".
Charamba is right, the Zanu PF purge, so far at least, has been a political process designed to force some people out of power and to do nothing else. When Grace Mugabe accused VP Mujuru of being corrupt and dealing in illicit diamonds it was to unnerve the later because she is corrupt. There was no real appetite to investigate the corruption because everyone knows corruption in Zanu PF and Zanu PF is corruption; Grace and her husband are just as corrupt as Mujuru if not worse!
What Charamba did not say here is the political purge is not complete and will not stop until all the Mujuru loyalists are purged out. Our Nathaniel Manheru columnist is a Mujuru loyalist and is therefore a sitting duck and the duck-shooting season has only just begun.
The economic ramification for those purged out of power is not as bad as if they were arrested and convicted of their crimes. Still they are bound to feel it. George Charamba has been earning hundreds of thousands of dollars per year from PSMAS directorships alone.
Manheru went to town in one of his articles criticising Deputy Minister Fortune Chasi for even suggesting that last year's elections were anything other than free, fair and credible. Now does Manheru think the thuggery that has seen Mai Mujuru and all her supporters (himself to join them soon) forced out of office a free and fair political process?
Still, good bye George Charamba! Adieu Nathaniel Manheru! You will certainly NOT be missed!
"Political issues that turn legal are only realised when there is the involvement of the police or Attorney-General," he said.
"All that is happening now is in the political domain and all this will end when successful politicians emerge. It is a political process, it becomes a legal issue when the judiciary is involved."
Following the Cashgate Dube scandal at PSMAS where George Charamba was named as one of the directors who had been milking the system it was clear that our friend was in the Mujuru faction, "wrong basket".
Charamba is right, the Zanu PF purge, so far at least, has been a political process designed to force some people out of power and to do nothing else. When Grace Mugabe accused VP Mujuru of being corrupt and dealing in illicit diamonds it was to unnerve the later because she is corrupt. There was no real appetite to investigate the corruption because everyone knows corruption in Zanu PF and Zanu PF is corruption; Grace and her husband are just as corrupt as Mujuru if not worse!
What Charamba did not say here is the political purge is not complete and will not stop until all the Mujuru loyalists are purged out. Our Nathaniel Manheru columnist is a Mujuru loyalist and is therefore a sitting duck and the duck-shooting season has only just begun.
The economic ramification for those purged out of power is not as bad as if they were arrested and convicted of their crimes. Still they are bound to feel it. George Charamba has been earning hundreds of thousands of dollars per year from PSMAS directorships alone.
Manheru went to town in one of his articles criticising Deputy Minister Fortune Chasi for even suggesting that last year's elections were anything other than free, fair and credible. Now does Manheru think the thuggery that has seen Mai Mujuru and all her supporters (himself to join them soon) forced out of office a free and fair political process?
Still, good bye George Charamba! Adieu Nathaniel Manheru! You will certainly NOT be missed!
Source - Wilbert Mukori
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