Mnangagwa Has Turned The Country Into A Mafia State: Biti

Former Finance minister and current opposition MDC Alliance vice president Tendai Biti has said President Emmerson Mnangagwa has ‘turned the country into a mafia state’ with “one family” now having “vast interests in gold and chrome mines, buses, banks, an airline, a fuel retail chain, farms, prime retail estate, a mobile phone company and commodity broking entities.”

Biti bemoaned massive allegations of corruption levelled against Mnangagwa’s under-fire administration including the Zanu PF leader’s family.

Last week, First Lady Auxillia Mnangagwa and her son Collins were implicated in a smuggling scandal after her relative Henrietta Rushwaya was caught trying to smuggle 6.09kgs of gold (worth over US$300 000) to Dubai. Commenting on this and other developments, Biti said;

“In 3 years of their existence they have turned Zim into a gluttonous arena of extraction and embarked on a massive feeding frenzy. Whether it’s minerals, procurement, FX, agriculture inputs, drugs, buses the Mnangagwa regime has no restraint nor elasticity. Zim has become mafia state.” NehandaRadio