HARARE – Zanu PF youths on Monday banned the party’s secretary for administration Obert Mpofu from the party’s headquarters in Harare after naming him on a list of corrupt officials.

Zanu PF deputy youth secretary Lewis Matutu lived up to his threat to name and shame corrupt Zanu PF and government officials, but offered little to support his accusations.

“We are requesting our honourable comrade, the secretary for administration and member of the presidium to clear himself of vast allegations that have not been answered to date. Our people are losing confidence and we are not patient,” Matutu said.

The youths were also “demanding immediate answers” from Tourism Minister Prisca Mupfumira over allegations that she was involved in corrupt conduct at the National Social Security (NSSA) in her former role as Minister of Public Service.

The Minister of State for Presidential Affairs, Jorum Gumbo, must come out and state “whether it’s true or false that there was misappropriation of funds at ZINARA” in his former role as transport minister, Matutu said, flanked by other youth league executives including political commissar Godfrey Tsenengamu.

Information Minister Monica Mutsvangwa’s children, Neville and Elizabeth, were accused of engaging in illegal foreign currency deals along with businessman, Wicknell Chivayo.

Said Mathuthu: “There’s a comrade from Bulawayo called Mlungisi Moyo and Artwell Ndlovu, they are the owners of the forex cartel in Bulawayo.

“There’s one Wayne Harrington, and there’s one Tinomuda Machakaire, a Member of Parliament, who are also doing illegal forex business.”

Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe governor John Mangudya is a “father who has watched things happen in his house and done nothing”, Matutu said, adding: “We will assume that he is also involved (in illicit foreign currency deals).”

The Zanu PF youths also targeted business executives from the private sector.

Libson Mhonda from Afrifore Unifreight was accused of “taking money out and into the country illegally.”

Tafadzwa Musarara of the Grain Millers Association of Zimbabwe was accused of abusing foreign currency allocations from the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe, while the Zimbabwe Miners Federation’s Henrietta Rushwaya was accused of leading a “very corrupt organisation that is short-changing small scale miners.”

“Henrietta Rushwaya as the leader must be answerable. We need explanations,” Matutu demanded.

Tongai Muzenda of the Minerals Marketing Corporation of Zimbabwe (MMCZ) was accused of “diamond corruption.”

“He is selling our diamonds to unaccredited people, devaluing our diamonds. We demand an explanation because those are natural resources for our people,” charged Matutu.

Mathuthu also took aim at a “Dr Shah” of PCD Diagnostics, thought to be the company’s founder Prashant Shah, who was accused of withholding medical supplies and then selling them at a premium after creating an artificial shortage.

The youths also pressed the Speaker of Parliament Jacob Mudenda to release an audit report into NSSA, with Matutu asking: “There has been no action by him. Is he involved in what is being alleged in that report?”

“The development of Zimbabwe will be stunted if we fail to root out corruption. A wind of change is blowing in Zimbabwe under the leadership of President Emmerson Mnangagwa and all well meaning citizens must join us in this fight, a fearless fight that we must fight together for the good of Zimbabwe,” Matutu said.

Tsenengamu said officials who hold positions in the party “must not report for duty tomorrow” or they would force the youths to “act in other ways.”

“Stay at home, till that time when you clear your name. We are locking the offices where these comrades have been working,” he said.

The only official who works permanently for the party is Mpofu.

The youths admitted they had no power to enforce compliance and demanded that Prosecutor General Kumbirai Hodzi must “do his job”.

“The officer commanding Harare province has heard. That is their responsibility, hopefully they will act soon,” Tsenengamiu said.

On government officials who do not work at the party headquarters, Tsenengamu said: “We have done our part as youth league, they have their bosses. We expect them to take action before we move in.”

ZimLive has seen no evidence of corruption by the named individuals.

Next week, Matutu said he would release a list of individuals who own multiple farms as well as those involved in corruption in the mining sector.