Kasukuwere probe team completes report

Embattled Zanu-PF national political commissar Saviour Kasukuwere will soon know his fate after a probe team set to investigate allegations being levelled against him completed its report now likely to be presented to President Mugabe this week.

Kasukuwere is facing a litany of allegations that include failing to run the party's commissariat department and plotting to topple President Mugabe.

To give credence to his alleged questionable leadership, last week Kasukuwere brewed a shocker after he made a unilateral decision to disqualify Pearson Meeting Mbalekwa from contesting in the party's primaries for the Chiwundura by-election via a text message.

Leader of the Kasukuwere probe team, Advocate Jacob Mudenda told our Harare Bureau yesterday that they had completed the report and soon it would be presented to the President.

"We have finalised the (Kasukuwere) report and what is left is for us to present it to His Excellency, President Mugabe," he said.

Asked when the report would be tabled to the President and Politburo, Adv Mudenda said: "That I cannot tell."

Sources close to the matter said the report might be presented to the President this week because it was long overdue.

"I am sure that the report will be presented to the President this week because this matter has dragged for too long," said the source. "The issue is now creating problems in the party and should be brought to finality."

Among other things, Kasukuwere is accused of presiding over factionalism in Zanu-PF, through setting up parallel structures with a view to deposing President Mugabe at an envisaged special Congress.

It is alleged that Kasukuwere bulldozed a number of individuals - including high-ranking officials - to influential positions across various structures of the ruling party.

Mashonaland Central was the first to accuse Kasukuwere of trying to engineer President Mugabe's ouster via parallel structures primed for an Extraordinary Congress of the party.

Other provincial executives then turned up the heat, signing petitions calling for the removal of the national commissar. This saw Zanu-PF's President and First Secretary, Mugabe, assigning the case to a high-level probe team led by Adv Mudenda.

Zanu-PF organs and affiliate organisations last week said Kasukuwere's case needed closure as it risked affecting preparations for next year's harmonised elections.