By Stanley Ugagbe
Again, the court is set to battle another big issue as the First Lady of Zimbabwe; Auxillia Mnangagwa has been accused of running an elaborate corruption scheme against the government.
According to the allegations made against her, the First Lady runs a car hire company which does not own any cars at all but has huge government contracts.
The Nigerian Canadian News gathered that the sensational allegations were made by Freeman Chari a Zimbabwean and opposition MDC activist based in the United States who alleges that the first lady’s underhand dealings forced retired army brigadier Vela Moyo to resign last year.
In a Twitter thread, Chari wrote:
“If you dig you will find more. For example, Auxillia runs a car hire company. The company has no cars of its own. The govt forwards cars to her company from DDF etc. She then sub-lease the cars back to other govt dept & gets paid
“Sometime last year a Retired Army Brig or so from Matebeleland was fired from Min Of Finance because he refused to forward $2 million to her as she was saying she needed it for her travel to USA.
“The guy was fired because the only forex that was available was for a UNDP program involving prisons. He paid prisons. Following day, he found his office locked and he was demoted and posted to Plumtree. He resigned. I now leave this in the hands of investigative journalists”.
Though unconfirmed, the revelations by Chari placed a further dent on President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s fight against corruption, which an increasing number of Zimbabweans believe is not sincere.
We recall that recently, the President’s son, Collins Mnangagwa was named in a US$60 million tender scam involving the awarding of contracts to supply COVID-19 equipment and medications to briefcase companies with no trade references.
