Harare, Zimbabwe. (News OfThe South) – Zimbabwe’s Parliament has stepped up efforts to get down to the bottom of the controversial disappearance of $15billion from diamond sells and will next week call one of the Ministers to give his submissions on the issue.
The mysterious disappearance of the hefty amount of money, which is over 4 times the Southern Africa country’s annual budget, has torched a storm as civic organisations and members of the public are accusing politicians of conniving with mining companies to rob the nation.
Godfrey Sithole, the MDC-T Member of Parliament for Chitungwiza North constituency, said a Parliamentary team had already visited Chiadzwa where it conducted public hearings on the missing money whose disappearance has torched a storm in a country current caught in an economic mess.
“As Parliament we went to Chiadzwa last week to conduct public hearings on the missing $15billion and we gathered oral and written submissions from the 5 diamond firms and also the community involved”.
“Today we met the workers and next week we will call Hon Patrick Zhuwao, the Minister of Youth Indigenisation and Economic Empowerment, to give his submissions”, he said whilst addressing some youths.
Sithole, who is the youngest opposition MP in Zimbabwe, lamented the poor caliber of leaders in the country saying they were lacking in empathy for the masses.
“The majority of politicians no longer have the spirit of Pan Africanism because if we look at the people that we represent in Tsholotsho and Chiendambuya, for example, they go for less than 3
meals per day”.
“They can’t afford shoes but if you pass by the car park at Parliament you will see all the latest vehicles”, he said.
The issue of the missing $15billion has rankled many with some lone demonstrators picketing Parliamentarians for sleeping on duty.
Recently Fagio Marowa held a lone man demonstration whilst prominent play writer Sylvanos Mudzvova was arrested whilst staging a one man play at Parliament building in protest.
Some public members have lamented the fact that such an issue had to wait for the President’s birthday speech to come into the open.
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