ZANU PF youth league has intensified its anti-corruption crusade and its daggers are drawn against multiple farm owners and land barons as it is set to name and shame them, Zim Morning Post can reveal.
The second wave of naming and shaming individuals found wanting and profiteering from their positions in society at the expense of the general citizenry is set for the very near future as the league has compiled a list of all individuals found wanting.
Speaking during an exclusive interview with the Zim Morning Post on Tuesday, Zanu PF deputy secretary for youth affairs Lewis Matutu confirmed that there was indeed a list of all individuals who had benefited from lack of accountability in the old dispensation and gotten away with owning multiple farms.
“We as the youth league will not rest when we can do something to make a difference in the country and assist our president,” said the youthful leader.
“Indeed there is a list of people who benefitted in the old dispensation and grabbed multiple farms at the expense of everyone else and names of people like the former first lady Grace Mugabe, Phillip Chiyangwa and Justice Zvandasara will not be missing from it. This is not just unfair, it is uncalled for. We are all Zimbabweans and everyone should have land if they want it instead of a few individuals owning vast pieces of land, most of which lies dormant.
“If the president can own one farm, what is so special about anyone else, there are no sacred cows and all Zimbabweans who have multiple farms will be named and shamed.”
Zim Morning Post understands that other names on the list includes Fredrick Mabamba who owns large tracts of land in Chitungwiza, Frank Buyanga who uses Hamilton Properties to acquire land, Harare mayor Herbert Gomba, former cabinet minister Ignatious Chombo who manipulated Zvimba Rural District Council to acquire land and other bogus land developers.
Matutu told this publication that the list would be made public and everyone regardless of party affiliations who would be found wanting would be named and shamed.
He also said the list will be handed over to the Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission (ZACC).
“We have the list and we will go public with it and obviously we will hand over the list to Zacc to finish the work we would have started.”
Central Committee member Justice Zvandasara has been accused of being a land baron using the Zanu PF party’s name to further his own gains while there have been several allegations of Grace Mugabe owning several farms and Chiyangwa equally in the same camp.
President Emmerson Mnangagwa also voiced his concerns over multiple farm ownership among Zanu PF bigwigs during a radio interview sometime this year.
The Zimbabwe Land Commission deployed teams of 60 enumerators in all eight farming provinces for the comprehensive agricultural land audit .
The audit is meant to identify land utilisation patterns and optimal farming activities which influence appropriate policies for increased agricultural productivity, poverty alleviation and sustainable utilisation of agricultural land.