FORMER ZANU-PF youth national political commissioner Godfrey Tsenengamu yesterday claimed that he had “quit” politics to focus on fighting corruption.
Tsenengamu, who is no stranger to controversy, said his anti-graft fight would be co-ordinated under his newly-formed Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Citizen’s Task Force.
“I am here to tell Zimbabweans, it is high time we must work together to fight this menace of corruption,” Tsenengamu told journalists at a Press conference in Harare yesterday.
“We tried it when we formed the Front for Economic Emancipation in Zimbabwe, but we realised that you cannot fight corruption effectively under the banner of a political party.”
In May this year, he said he was returning to Zanu PF.
Tsenengamu was suspended from the ruling party in 2020 for exposing corrupt Zanu PF-linked businesspersons.
Yesterday, he was singing a different tune saying the decision to rejoin Zanu PF was premature.
He claimed that the Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Citizens Task Force was registered four years ago, but was not operational.
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“It is a legally registered institution, which can report any individual with a rightful authority. We are going to be whistleblowing big time,” he said.
“We don’t care whether you are from this party or that political party. We don’t care whether you have the support of that powerful individual or this powerful individual. We are not going to be fighting against institutions.”
Last week, Vice-President Constantino Chiwenga bemoaned high levels of corruption in the country saying the vice was posing a security threat.
Just after the military coup when he assumed power in November 2017, President Emmerson Mnangagwa promised to fight graft.
However, reports have implicated his associates such as tenderpreneur Wicknell Chivayo in the milking of millions from the State coffers through corrupt and inflated tenders.
