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Mr. Rutendo Matinyarare exposed on Tagwirei

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Mr. Rutendo Matinyarare caused an article below to be published by the Herald today, 25 March 2022, entitled “Debunking mischief about Tagwirei, Sakunda.”

What is mischief about holding people to account for the use of public funds?

Mr. Brian Manyati, a director of Friends of SMM (FOSMM) and a member of the Justice Under Rule of Law (JUROL) initiative said:

“The Sakunda issue is not as simplistic as any hired gun would want to project in the enterprise of singing for his supper.

Any rational person would know that the government of Zimbabwe (GOZ) is not a personal project to allow the self-serving diatribe that Matinyarare for self-promotion and financial reasons to intentionally and knowingly seek to mislead the people of Zimbabwe into believing that COMMAND ideas have no public finance consequences.

History teaches that “high Crimes and Misdemeanors” referred mainly to acts committed by public officials, using their power or privileges, that inflicted grave harm on our political order.

The allegation is that Mr. Tagwirei has a high political voltage that enabled his company to overcome with ease the limitations imposed by public procurement regulations and rules in relation to the procurement of goods and services using public funds.

It cannot be disputed that the allegations against Sakunda are very serious and belong to a class of dangerous offenses that include treason, bribery, serious abuse of power, betrayal of the national interest through foreign entanglements, and corruption of office.

To the extent that public funds were used and public trust undermined, there are unnamed officials who abused, abandoned, or sought personal benefit from their public trust–and in so doing threaten the rule of law if left unchecked and untouchable.

An independent and impartial public office bearer would not seek the assistance of charlatans to defend what is patently a betrayal of public trust by those we look up to, to uphold, defend, respect, and obey it.

It is being alleged that political officials used political power in relation to Command Agriculture in ways that substantially harmed the promise of an open, democratic, inclusive, accountable, and responsible constitutional system.

It is unfortunate that what a person like Matinyarare is trying to do is to protect the abusers and promote the beneficiaries of a grotesquely corrupt system.”

Please read the full text of Matinyarare’s piece that was predictably published by the Herald in defence of corrupt practices:

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