Messages From Zimbabwe

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173. Newton Kachepa Member of Parliament elect for Mudzi North, directly involved in the campaign of terror waged before and after the elections;

174. Major Kairo (alias Cairo) Mhandu ZNA, directly involved in the campaign of terror waged before and after the elections;

175. Brigadier General Sibusio Bussie Moyo ZNA, directly involved in the campaign of terror waged before and after the elections;

176. Brigadier General Richard Ruwodo Promoted on 12 August to the rank of Major General (retired); former Acting PUS for Ministry of Defence, directly involved in the campaign of terror waged before and after the elections;

177. Misheck Nyawani Superintendent (retired), directly involved in the campaign of terror waged before and after the elections;

178. Columbus Mudonhi Assistant Inspector ZRP, directly involved in the campaign of terror waged before and after the elections;

179. Isaac Mumba Superintendent, directly involved in the campaign of terror waged before and after the elections;

180. Martin Kwainona Assistant Commissioner, directly involved in the campaign of terror waged before and after the elections;

181. Paul Mudzvova Sgt, directly involved in the campaign of terror waged before and after the elections;

182. Martin Dinha Provincial Governor for Mashonaland Central;

183. Faber Chidarikire Provincial Governor for Mashonaland West.

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45. Makoni, Simbarashe ZANU PF Politburo Deputy Secretary General for Economic Affairs (former Minister of Finance), born 22.3.1950 Member of the Politburo and as such with strong ties to the Government.

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A child cries from hunger, but no tears come from her swollen eyes.

Malnutrition has left this baby born in Zimbabwe fighting for her life. She is the face of an unfolding crisis in a country once known as Africa’s bread basket.

Today a loaf of bread costs $35 million worthless Zimbabwean dollars, and people are forced to sift through garbage piles for any morsel of food. Others huddle for warmth around a fire burning inside the shell of a broken-down van.

All of these images were captured on video recently smuggled out of Zimbabwe by Solidarity Peace Trust, a South African human rights group.

Zimbabwe’s government maintains that the situation is being exaggerated by the West in an effort to exert pressure on President Robert Mugabe to leave office.

But the World Health Organization (WHO) says the desperate situation has triggered a widening cholera outbreak that has killed 775 people and infected more than 15,000.

“You have to eat in the same place you sleep right next to the buckets, the same buckets that we used as toilets,” one cholera patient says on the video. “There is no water to bathe.”

And little to eat. Women foraging for food in the bush find dry branches with only a few berries.

“This packet of juice will be my supper tonight,” one woman says.

Zimbabwe’s main opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai - who is still trying to form a unity government with Mugabe under a recent power-sharing deal - said the situation can only be addressed once a “legitimate government” is in place.

“Once there is a legitimate government, it is up to that government to deal with the problems the country is facing, which are quite wide-ranging,” Tsvangirai told CNN on Wednesday.

“But the immediate intervention of the health crisis has exacerbated the situation to the extent that it has now become an international crisis.”

The WHO says the current cholera outbreak in Zimbabwe has a high fatality rate because sufferers are either not able to reach health centers in time or that the health centers lack the capacity to treat the cases.

“The epidemic is clearly on the increase,” Dr. Eric Laroche, a WHO official in Harare, told CNN on Wednesday. “I think it’s going to last for several months.”

In addition to the WHO, the Red Cross has responded to the outbreak and is sending staff and medical supplies into Zimbabwe.

Zimbabwe’s main hospitals have all but shut down and the small clinics equipped by international aid organizations are overcrowded and unable to cope with the thousands of cholera patients. Health workers inside Zimbabwe believe scores are dying at home.

Laroche said the WHO is receiving cooperation from the government, but the health care system is abysmal.

“The quality of the care, the supplies that come inside Zimbabwe, also need to be restored,” Laroche said. “So there’s a lot of work to do, because the health system is collapsing for the time being.”

One Zimbabwean health care worker, who would not show his face on the video, said he fears the death toll will skyrocket.

“People are dying even at the health institution,” he said. “It’s beyond control. We are going to witness so many deaths in the coming weeks.”

He expressed frustration that so many people are dying from cholera, a disease that “is both preventable and curable.”

“Nobody should die from cholera,” he said. “We are quite unfortunate.”

Zimbabwe, already experiencing an economic crisis, was struck with the raging water-borne cholera in August. Health experts say the battle against the disease can only be won if Harare has adequate water-treating chemicals and disposes of refuse properly.

Zimbabwe’s information minister Sikhanyiso Ndlovu said Tuesday that the country has enough chemicals to purify water and enough money to buy pipes to mend sanitation lines.

He maintained that the outbreak is under control, blaming the West for causing the crisis as an excuse for military intervention.

International leaders - including U.S. President George W. Bush, French President Nicolas Sarkozy, and Kenyan premier Raila Odinga - have recently called for Mugabe to step down for failing to contain the cholera outbreak.

Frustration inside Zimbabwe is building. Last week, doctors and nurses protested over the lack of medical supplies and other resources at the country’s hospitals.

Labor unions have protested over the deteriorating economy. Even soldiers once shielded from economic hardships by the Mugabe regime went on a rampage last week when they were unable to access wages from the country’s banks.

Human rights activist Elinor Sisulu, who has lived and worked in Zimbabwe and now coordinates civil action outside the country, called on African leaders to demand Mugabe step down before Zimbabwe explodes.

“In any population where you have high levels of desperation, anger and… people arrive at the conclusion that we’ve tried a peaceful political process and this is not working, then anything can happen,” she said.

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The charge sheet against Zimbabwe’s Robert Mugabe is long and packed with crimes of both commission and omission. The World Food Program expects half the Zimbabwean population will soon need food aid. Official inflation was 231 million percent in July - the last time statistics were released. Unemployment is over 85 percent; poverty over 90 percent; and foreign reserves almost depleted. Since Mugabe took power, thousands have died at the hands of his goons. Operation Murambatsvina, in 2005, alone cost some 700,000 people their homes, livelihoods or both.

Now an outbreak of cholera has claimed around 600 lives and, according to Medicins Sans Frontieres, threatens another 1.4 million people.  As there is no likelihood of an international intervention to topple to octogenarian rebel-turned-President, Britain should us its seat on the UN Security Council to table a resolution authorising the International Criminal Court (ICC) to investigate the chain of command behind the crimes committed by Mugabe’s regime against the Zimbabwean people.

It’s true that Zimbabwe, like the US, has not signed the Rome statute which set up the ICC. But the UN Security Council can refer a case to the Court, as they did with the government-backed militias operating in Darfur, Sudan. In Zimbabwe’s case, this could lead to an investigation and to Mugabe’s arrest if he set foot in any country which has signed the treaty.

If the UN/ICC route is not viable, Britain of the European Court of Justice should act. Though I’m no lawyer, from my university days I remember that Adolf Eichmann was tried in Israel in 1962, based on the principle of universality - the right of any state to act, when the worst crimes have been committed. To quote the Demjanjuk v Petrovsky case: “[t]he universality principle is based on the assumption that some crimes are so universally condemned that the perpetrators are the enemies of all people, ” and “[t]herefore, any nation which has the custody of the perpetrators may punish them according to its law applicable to such offences.”  Surely something similar applies to Mugabe’s crimes against Zimbabweans.

Gordon Brown has in the past talked about the international community’s “responsibility to protect” innocent people against murderous regimes and situations where, as he said in January, “the state is either unwilling or unable to halt or prevent it despite prior or early warnings.” There are many examples of this around the world, but few as clear-cut as Zimbabwe. Rather than talk loosely of international intervention, the Government needs to push the UN Security Council into action. If the Chinese and Russians block a vote, then Britain should begin investigations on her own, or - if diplomats worry about Mugabe using a prosecution for his own gain - ask a third country, like Sweden, Denmark or Spain, to begin proceedings.  Either way, it’s time to act.

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I did a bit of investigation in an effort to get a clear picture of the events behind the recent rioting by members of the Zimbabwe National Army.

I was told that on the 27th of November soldiers were supposed to receive their ZW$42 million for their salary, and converged at a bank in town from their places of work, One Commando and KG 6 respectively, on foot.

On arrival at the bank they learnt from the bank manager that their monies had been transported in bulk to their places of work from where bank officials were to issue it to them. It is reported that issuing of the money began in the absence of the soldiers and higher ranking personnel where paid first before the lower ranks, the bulk of whom were in town.

The monies sent by the bank were only sufficient to pay less than 20 of the aforementioned ranks at either of the 2 bases before it ran out. By the time the soldiers from town arrived at their bases the money had long run out and they were told that no money for them had been delivered by the bank.

Empty-handed, angry and frustrated, they returned into town where they confronted the bank manager, man-handling him and the bank’s employees. The siege on the bank was cut short after the bank manager produced documentation that indeed showed the soldiers that money intended for their salaries had indeed been sent to their bases.

That was when all hell broke loose as the soldiers had discovered that their seniors and the administration running the country was taking them for a ride, and they then unleashed an orgy of violence and robbery on unsuspecting black-market foreign currency dealers, accusing them of being collusion with the RBZ’s Gono and being given money that should cover for their salaries to purchase foreign currency.

The rioting on the 1st of this month was a spill-over occurrence, the actual cause being the events of the 27th of November, as the soldiers continued harassing and robbing the forex dealers at Eastgate Shopping Mall, ending up in the looting spree.

There was more drama at Grants Shopping Centre in the early hours of the evening of the 2nd of December, located in Milton Park when soldiers numbering between 30 and 50 assaulted a woman, robbed her of cell phone and handbag, before proceeding to break into a shop that sells clothing in foreign currency and looting both.

The woman was assaulted using clenched fists and boots by the mob and left lying on the ground, bleeding from the mouth and nose, and was identified by onlookers as an acquaintance of a very, very senior and high-ranking army official whose name I shall withhold for my own security.

A short while after the assault the injured woman requested that a bystander call the official using her cell-phone, and within moments the place was swarmed by senior army personnel, donning their fancy regalia and driving expensive double-cab trucks and luxury cars. Within moments 2 truckloads of soldiers from the military police descended on the shopping centre in an effort to track down their counterparts and bring them to book.

It is reported that a senior lady official was directing operations and called for the military police to scour the place and try to apprehend only one soldier who was going to disclose the names of his counterparts.

It was at this moment that my source and witness to this incident decided to depart from the shopping centre, fearing that he might entangle himself in the mess as military police are known to carry out their business using a scorched earth policy.

It is increasingly becoming clear that the events of the past week are not random events and are beginning to show a certain degree of coordination. At this rate, the country is in for very interesting times.

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Zimbabwe’s government has accused former colonial ruler Britain of using a cholera epidemic to rally Western support for an invasion of the collapsing southern African nation, a state-run newspaper said on Sunday.

President Robert Mugabe has in the past week come under pressure from the international community, especially Western nations who accuse him of ruining the once relatively prosperous country and exposing its people to famine and disease.

British Prime Minister Gordon Brown on Saturday branded Mugabe’s government a “blood-stained regime” and said it bore responsibility for a cholera epidemic that has killed at least 575 Zimbabweans and made ill almost 13 000.

Brown called on the world to tell Mugabe “enough is enough”. His plea came a day after US Secretary of State Condoleeza Rice said that the veteran Zimbabwean ruler’s departure from office was long overdue.

“I don’t know what this mad Prime Minister (Brown) is talking about. He is asking for an invasion of Zimbabwe… but he will come unstuck,” Mugabe spokesperson George Charamba told the state-controlled Sunday Mail.

Charamba added that the growing Western criticism signalled a plot to oust Mugabe’s government militarily.

The government in Harare frequently blames Britain and other Western nations for the country’s economic meltdown, saying that targeted sanctions against Mugabe and his inner circle have sabotaged the economy.

Zimbabwe is on the verge of collapse. Food stocks are running out, unemployment is above 80% and prices double every 24 hours.

The health system is in tatters, leaving many of those infected with cholera no option for treatment.

The epidemic has forced Zimbabwe to declare a national emergency and seek foreign assistance.

Britain, which has a particularly bad relationship with Mugabe’s government, is among the European nations that have promised to provide aid.

South Africa, Zimbabwe’s richest neighbour, also has pledged assistance. South African officials are due to visit Zimbabwe on Monday to assess the humanitarian crisis.

At the same time the European Union is considering applying new sanctions against Zimbabwe next week unless progress is made in ending a political deadlock over how to implement a power-sharing deal between Mugabe and the opposition party.

Mugabe and Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) leader Morgan Tsvangirai agreed on September 15 to form a unity government, but the effort has been mired by disagreement over control of ministries.

Negotiators from Mugabe’s ZANU PF party and the MDC are due to meet again with South African mediators later this month.

Charamba said Western sanctions, which Harare says are punishment for its seizure of thousands of white-owned farms, have made it more difficult for the government to respond to health crises such as the cholera outbreak.

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UK Prime Minister Gordon Brown has branded the cholera crisis in Zimbabwe “an international emergency” and called on the world community to confront President Robert Mugabe, leader of the central African nation.

“This is now an international rather than a national emergency,” Brown said in a statement Saturday. “International because disease crosses borders. International because the systems of government in Zimbabwe are now broken. There is no state capable or willing of protecting its people.”

Earlier this week the government of Zimbabwe, which already suffers from severe economic problems and political instability, declared a national emergency following the outbreak, which has so far killed more than 600 people.

Cholera, a water-borne disease, is on the increase in nine of Zimbabwe’s 10 provinces, the U.N. Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) warned. It blamed “poor water and sanitation supply, a collapsed health system and limited government capacity to respond to the emergency.”

Many of those afflicted with the disease have fled to neighbouring countries to seek medical health - which risks spreading the outbreak still further.

Brown called on the international community to tell Mugabe “enough is enough,” and suggested that the United Nations Security Council meet to discuss the issue.

He added that the most pressing issue was to ensure that testing and rehydration equipment and packs reach the right people, as well as for aid agencies to set up a organizational structure in the state capital Harare to confront the disease.

“The people of Zimbabwe voted for a better future. It is our duty to support that aspiration,” Brown added.

Brown’s comments came one day after U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said that the outbreak is the latest sign that Mugabe’s rule over the country must end.

“It’s well past time for Robert Mugabe to leave. I think that’s now obvious,” Rice said during a visit to Denmark.

Washington has long called for Mugabe to leave office, with President George W. Bush calling Zimbabwe’s runoff presidential election in June a “sham” and instructing Rice and other U.S. officials to develop additional sanctions against Mugabe’s “illegitimate government.”

“The United States will always do anything and everything that it can to help innocent people who are suffering,” Rice said. “And we are not going to deny assistance to people in need because of their government. But if this is not evidence to the international community that it’s time to stand up for what is right, I don’t know what will be. And frankly, the nations of the region have to lead it.”

Rice - who has just about a month left in office before President-elect Barack Obama’s administration takes over - also called on all African nations to speak up.

Asked whether the United States and Europe should try to force out Mugabe, Rice responded, “Well, without help in the region, it’s very difficult to have the tools that will bring about a just resolution in Zimbabwe. The United States and Europe can’t do everything alone. Other states are responsible too. And the southern African states should be the most responsible at this point, because they have the most at risk. And the people of Zimbabwe have suffered long enough.”

Supporters of Mugabe, who has come under heavy international criticism for several years, were accused of political intimidation following June’s presidential runoff vote.

For months there have been some efforts to build a power-sharing government between Mugabe’s ruling ZANU PF party and the opposition movement for Democratic Change, led by Morgan Tsvangirai, to little avail.

On Thursday, Mugabe hinted he may form a Cabinet without the opposition and call for early elections. The opposition responded that it would welcome a “genuine election,” with international supervision.

The 84-year-old Mugabe, who has led Zimbabwe since its independence in 1980 from Great Britain, also suggested he would ignore an international tribunal ruling that declared illegal his government’s seizure of farms from white Zimbabweans.

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The beleaguered Zimbabwean strongman Robert Mugabe will call early elections if an agreement on power-sharing with the opposition fails to work within the next two years, state media reported on Friday without spelling out whether he will still be the candidate for his own faction ravaged party.

“We agreed to give them (the opposition Movement for Democratic Change) 13 ministries while we share the ministry of home affairs, but if the arrangement fails to work in the next one-and-a-half to two years, then we would go for elections,” Mugabe was quoted as saying by The Herald newspaper.

Zimbabwe has been in political limbo since elections in March when the opposition wrested control of parliament from Mugabe’s party and MDC leader Morgan Tsvangirai pushed Mugabe into second place in a presidential poll.

But Tsvangirai pulled out of a run-off poll in June after dozens of his supporters were killed in attacks blamed on Mugabe supporters.

The two rivals did sign an agreement in September to share power, but it has yet to be implemented after fierce disagreements over who should control key ministries.

In his comments published by The Herald, made during an address to members of his ZANU PF party’s politburo, Mugabe accused the MDC of trying to destroy the power-sharing agreement.

“The MDC should say no if they do not want to be part of the inclusive government,” said Mugabe, 84, who has ruled the former British colony since independence in 1980.

“We agreed to work with the Movement for Democratic Change so that we push government programmes together as a country, but when elections are announced we go against each other.”

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Zimbabwe riot police officers wielding batons broke up protests by union members, doctors and nurses Wednesday, and the death toll from a cholera epidemic rose to 565 in the spiralling crisis.

Trade unions have called protests over a shortage of increasingly worthless cash while at least 100 health workers protested to demand better pay and conditions at a time they are fighting Zimbabwe’s worst cholera outbreak on record.

Zimbabwe’s once relatively prosperous economy has collapsed, and any hope of rescue is on hold while President Robert Mugabe and the opposition leader, Morgan Tsvangirai, are deadlocked over implementing a power-sharing arrangement.

Riot police officers with shields and batons broke up a group of about 20 demonstrators marching toward the central bank.

There was no sign of any immediate impact of new measures announced by the bank to increase cash withdrawal limits and introduce higher-value notes. There were still long lines outside banks as shoppers jostled to get cash.

Across town, the police dispersed about 100 health workers who had converged outside the Health Ministry.

Public hospitals have largely shut down due to drug and equipment shortages as well as frequent strikes by doctors and nurses pressing for better pay. They have been ill-equipped to cope with the cholera outbreak.

The UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs in Zimbabwe said cholera had killed 565 people and infected more than 12,500 Zimbabweans. Hundreds of Zimbabweans have fled to South Africa for treatment, adding to pressure for greater regional involvement to pull Zimbabwe back from total meltdown.

The Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions said it would press ahead with protests despite the heavy police presence. It said at least one union leader had been arrested by the secret police from the Central Intelligence Organization.

The protests follow clashes Monday in which dozens of unarmed soldiers were involved in running battles with mobs and riot police officers after seizing cash from vendors and illegal foreign currency traders.

The Zimbabwean defence minister, Sydney Sekeramayi, said measures had been put in place to prevent acts of violence by what state media called “rogue soldiers.”

“Let me also emphasize that those who may try to incite some members of the uniformed forces to indulge in illegal activities will be found equally culpable,” Sekeramayi was quoted as saying by the state-owned Herald newspaper.

Analysts said the emergence of dissent in Mugabe’s security establishment showed the effects of increased economic instability and may compound the already myriad problems faced by Mugabe’s government.

“If this is a start of some kind of a rebellion by the troops, then we could see change in Zimbabwe a lot quicker than it seemed likely a while ago,” said Steven Friedman, a political analyst at the University of Johannesburg.

The spread of cholera over Zimbabwe’s borders may also force neighbouring countries to take action.

The normally preventable and treatable disease has spread into neighbouring South Africa, Mozambique and Botswana, according to the World Health Organization.

Health officials said cholera had been detected in the Limpopo River on the border with Zimbabwe, and the International Federation of the Red Cross said Wednesday that six people had died of the disease in South Africa, with 400 cases reported.

The Malawian health minister, Khumbo Kachali, said that health services had been put on high alert after a Zimbabwean truck driver with the disease was admitted to a hospital in the country’s second biggest city, Blantyre.

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Members of the Zimbabwe National Army (ZNA) went berserk Monday in the city centre wantonly assaulting Reserve Bank Governor Gideon Gono’s foreign currency dealers and members of the military police amid revelations that the entire uniformed forces have been irked by the extension of the RBZ boss’ term of office.

A further five year extension to 2013 of Gono’s term at a time Zimbabwe’s economy is profusely bleeding due to the administrative blips and blunders of Mugabe’s fraudulently anointed governor has angered many in the security forces.

The Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) leader Morgan Tsvangirai recently lampooned the extension of Gono’s term as a wanton disregard of the provisions of the All-Inclusive government that does not accommodate such high-level appointments unilaterally.

Gono’s re-appointment is likely to create a fresh huddle for the GNU which is likely to suffer a still-birth.

A sizeable number of members of the uniformed forces reportedly walked all the way from Cranborne barracks into Central Harare Monday and went on a rampage manhandling Forex dealers who had wads of Z$1000 000 at a time hapless Zimbabweans are at pains to access a mere Z$500 000 from their respective banks.

Soldiers are reportedly tired of Gono and Mugabe’s usual scapegoat - SANCTIONS.

Zimbabwe’s armed forces are likely to remain agitated as long as the economy remains in the doldrums.

A source who witnessed the rampage on Forex dealers and members of the military police at the infamous Road port told ZimDaily the army officers wanted their victims to confirm the easy source of their wads of the “scarce” local cash some of which they confiscated on spot.

They concluded Gono was the Godfather of the forex dealers they called fraudsters who have also held the nation to ransom.

Zimbabweans and soldiers still vividly remember the Z$10 billion Jonathan Kadzura cash deal, and Flat-water debacle (“Flat Watergate”) – in which Gono turned against his own surrogates and Forex runners .

It should be remembered Gono recently famously released Z$ 7.5 trillion of tax payer’s money without any proper documentation or due diligence of the recipient of the funds. That money is believed to have fallen into the hands of the forex dealers.

Gono is known for creating and manufacturing enemies of the ’state’ particularly people he does not like, to divert attention from his total failures at the helm of overseeing the country’s coffers.

The public was also treated to free-for-all drama as the soldiers descended on junior details of the uniformed Military police severely and severally assaulting them accusing them of promoting lawlessness.

They accused the military police of descending on them and not arresting Gono’s men breaking financial controls with impunity.”

“We are Mudhara’s (Robert Mugabe) men but shefu has disappointed us by giving Gono a fresh lease of life at a time he has caused the suffering of many. He should have dismissed the IDIOT,” said a soldier at Harare’s Boomerang Restaurant just after descending on a legion of Forex dealers who eventually scurried for life.

Some members of the Central Intelligence Organization (CIO) have taken sides with the army saying at the moment the law of the jungle is the only way to go as Zimbabwe is on ‘auto-pilot’.

One official from the Zimbabwe’s dreaded secret service told ZimDaily soldiers should keep the spirit of resistance up accusing Mugabe and Gono of abusing authority. Soldiers are also reportedly beating up civilians to raise the temperatures in the streets in anticipation of a popular uprising

The CIO agent said many in ZANU PF, especially in the Cabinet and Politburo are heavily opposed to Gono’s ruinous financial policies. The recent unilateral extension of his term of office by another five years to 2013 has only hardened their views.

The usually busy Fourth Street bus terminal is deserted as soldiers run amok in Harare Monday. Soldiers baton charged hapless forex dealers, with riot police shooting and killing one soldier during the deadly clashes.

The soldiers caused havoc from the Market Square. By the time they got to Eastgate, scores of youths had joined in singing “Gono hatichadi kunyengerera.”

He hinted that Mugabe is digging his own grave and sooner than later, graveside orations will take their toll. Gono has however struck alliances with ZANU PF hardliners such as former Intelligence Minister Mutasa who continues to support him in exchange of getting Forex at subsidized rates from the RBZ .

Gono buys Forex from the black market, “sells” it at the official rate to the favored few “shefus” in Mugabe’s Zanu-PF .

Owing to the persistent cash crisis and an incessant brush with soldiers, the police Commissioner General Augustine Chihuri was said to have begged the RBZ boss Gono to have an arrangement where army details are served at their army barracks.

The system was however abused by army chefs who regularly grabbed all the cash forcing junior officers to eventually resort to a confrontational stances with Gono’s men code-named ‘Vemabag’.

Gono, who was once rumored and fingered for being an agent of the American Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) and accused of selling high-level secrets enters the black market informally through his legion of dealers to raise foreign currency for the “president’s” unending international forays, payment for electricity imports, water-treating chemicals to contain Cholera, among other purported emergencies.

His alleged CIA links saw him escape the targeted sanctions for a long time. He was only added after he failed to deliver on Mugabe’s removal by sponsoring the infamous Tsholotsho meeting held at Dinyane School and other subsequent failures to get rid of Mugabe.

The furore with the army has taken place at a time the RBZ has been accused of bribing the judiciary and magistrates with a fleet of 30 Isuzu KB LX 300 vehicles that are reportedly parked at the RBZ Sports Club pending their allocation to the law enforcement officers to influence punitive sentences on alleged defaulters of financial controls.

When contacted by the ZimDaily reporter, RBZ Public Relations declined to shed more light saying Gono was the right man to comment.

Gono’s mobile phone was switched off when ZimDaily contacted him for a comment.

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