Minister Kazembe speaks on corruption allegations

Minister Kazembe speaks on corruption allegations

Hosia Mviringi

Minister of Home Affairs and Cultural Heritage, who is also ZANU PF Provincial Chairman for Mashonaland Central Province, Cde Kazembe Kazembe has dispelled rumours circulating on social media that he was protecting corrupt councillors within the Mazowe Rural District Council (RDC).
A misleading headline by a faceless journalist circulating within Mashonaland Central WhatsApp groups intimated that the Minister is shielding corrupt figures.
In an exclusive interview with Tateguru Tv yesterday, Cde Kazembe dismissed the story as unfounded.
He said as the Minister of Home Affairs, his mandate is to fight corruption in line with His Excellency, President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s policy of “Zero Tolerance To Corruption.”
Cde Kazembe urged journalists to feel free to approach his office if they wanted audience with him before publishing falsehoods.
“I encourage those who think that I’m corrupt or protecting those who are corrupt to report me to ZACC so that I can be investigated and prosecuted. ZACC is an independent body which investigates any case without fear or favour. Police has also demonstrated that no one is above the law. Whoever commits a crime will be arrested and prosecuted provided there is appropriate evidence,” he said.
Cde Kazembe advised ZANU (PF) party cadres to shun divisionism, and work towards realization of Vision 2030 as espoused by His Excellency, President Mnangagwa.

“I know that soiling my name is part of politics. It is dirty politics. I don’t do dirty politics. My message is simple and clear. Unity, unity and more unity. Let us unite as children of ZANU (PF) and build our nation together. Nyika inovakwa nevene vayo. United we stand, and divided we fall. Let’s not leave anyone nor any place behind as we develop the nation and work towards attaining five million votes for our party President Cde Emmerson Mnangagwa in the coming elections so that he continues with the great works that all of us are seeing.”
Cde Kazembe revealed that he was working tirelessly to see that as Mashonaland Central Province, they continue to deliver outright victory for the ZANU (PF) party, and for President Mnangagwa in the forthcoming harmonized elections.
He encouraged all eligible voters within his province, and the country to register to vote and to vote emphatically for ZANU (PF) so that it delivers the final nail on the MDC and its surrogate Citizens Coalition for Change party, led by Nelson Chamisa.