1. As the Chiwengas wash their dirty laundry in public more of the rot & state capture is revealed. Marry’s demand for a Mercedes Benz vehicle is rebuffed by Chiwenga who says it was bought as an escort vehicle for their children by politically connected businessman Kuda Tagwirei
2. Tagwirei, one of the post-coup inner circle is a member of the Presidential Advisory Council. He is the face of Sakunda Holdings, a big beneficiary of cheap RBZ forex facilities & part of the dodgy & corrupt Command Agriculture. Its accounts were temporarily frozen last year.
3. This is the man that a VP says without shame in court papers that he bought an “escort vehicle for the children” The level of rot in Zimbabwe’s government is legendary & they are to even embarrassed about it. How do people who are not on the feeding trough support these goons?
4. And come to think of it, if Tagwirei can just gift a VP’s children with an “escort vehicle” what about lesser public officers in other areas of government? It’s scandalous. Are these “gifts” to senior public officers even declared? But to whom when the top chap is a donee?
5. Common wisdom and human experience remind us that there is nothing like free lunch. Tagwirei would not just buy the VP’s children a Mercedes Benz vehicle in expectation of nothing in return. The VP would be expected to return the favour at some point & in some form. Farcical.
