Zanu PF chefs refuse to declare assets

Authoritative sources in the former liberation war party said there were some senior MPs trying to influence, and in some cases threatening others, not to declare their assets.

Several senior Zanu PF officials accumulated “obscene” wealth in the past decade amid widespread suspicions that they were using their positions to acquire the riches.

“They are lobbying others not to declare their assets because they fear that they would be exposed,” said one source. “Others are registering their assets in family trusts and in relatives’ names because they are not sure how this crusade against corruption will end.”

Some known Zanu PF ministers have properties, ranging from multiple residential to industrial stands, in almost every urban centre in the country, including growth points.

Others have over five farms, which they violently grabbed from white commercial farmers although millions of ordinary Zimbabweans remain landless despite leading the land invasions.

Another source said the issue of asset declaration is slowly dividing Zanu PF with those with clean hands supporting the idea.

However, those with skeletons in their closets, who constitute the majority, are resistant to the move and determined to put spanners in the works of the anti-corruption project.

The only senior and notable Zanu PF official who declared his assets is Mwenezi East MP Kudakwashe Bhasikiti, who is in the party’s politburo.

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Sources said there were also legislators in the MDC-T who are against the idea of declaring their assets because they cannot explain how they got their riches when, a decade ago, they were just paupers.