A bunch of men dressed in suits and looking important are going all over the country on public hearings asking whether ordinary, hardworking folk who are struggling should pay for the money that was stolen from the Reserve Bank and dished out by Gideon Gono to ZANU(PF) cronies and parasites. That is the most ridiculous exercise that I can imagine. How can we seriously run this country when parliamentarians spend tax payers money going around the country wanting input on what is a clear case? Funds were abused to prop up ZANU (PF) and now they must ask us whether we should pay for that?
I note that Gono is hiding behind the Reserve Bank Act and I really wonder whether our laws are in place to protect stealing or to prevent it. Surely any bank must account on how it spends money and cannot be protected by law not to account for it?
It is offensive to ask tax payers to shoulder the Reserve Bank debt and yet refuse to disclose to them how that debt arose in the first place and who "borrowed" what? In addition, if I remember correctly, the cabinet decided to take over that debt anyway and it's a done deal designed to protect they very people who benefited from this national theft.
The Reserve Bank is a monster that was transformed into a tuck shop for ZANU (PF) parasites and I feel sorry for my class mate, the new Governor who must pretend all is well. It is like he has been given a grenade and Gono has run away with the pin. I actually heard an insider's story that a minister who is now late was surprised when a combine harvester was delivered to his farm courtesy of the so called Farm Mechanisation Scheme, only to tell the touts who delivered it that he was a cattle rancher and did not need it but the guys insisted that they had been sent and had to leave it there; the combine harvester was left rotting at the farm.
Millions worth of assets were also stolen from the farms and white commercial farmers will need to be compensated for that; courtesy of the tax payer once more and yet nobody in parliament is talking about this.
This is actually not the only debt that we should worry about; State enterprises from Air Zimbabwe, NRZ, to TelOne and many more all have humongous debts that have been taken over by government. Have the parliamentarians gone around asking about those debts and whether we should pay or should we rather liquidate these enterprises that continue to drain the country's resources while being used only as patronage systems for ZANU (PF) parasites?