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Original Post Date: 2009-01-22 Time: 23:00:07 Posted By: Gairk
Government will, by the end of this week, name, shame and prosecute Cabinet ministers, Members of Parliament, civil servants and other people accused of abusing subsidised inputs distributed to farmers under Operation Maguta/Inala, the National Resource Mobilisation and Utilisation Committee has said. Year-after-year, improper handling of inputs, alleged corruption and diversion of inputs has frustrated Government efforts to boost agricultural productivity, giving detractors of the land reform programme ammunition to use reduced production to attack the Government. Chairman of the logistics sub-committee Brigadier-General Douglas Nyikayaramba yesterday said police had already questioned several ministers and eight MPs, who will be named as soon as their warned and cautioned statements have been recorded.
Some of the State officials, including ministers, MPs, police and army officers and other civil servants implicated in the scam, have already been summoned by police and their warned and cautioned statements recorded. Brig-Gen Nyikayaramba yesterday identified some of the culprits, who also include members of the uniformed forces who were leading Operation Maguta programmes across the country. The list also includes farmers who benefited from Government programmes but sold the inputs to other farmers or shop owners, who subsequently sold the inputs on the illegal parallel market. “We have started legal proceedings against these people and some of them have already started appearing in court while the names of the senior Government officials will be exposed by the end of the week. There are eight members of the House of Assembly who have been summoned to the police and their names would be made public as soon as police have finished working on their dockets,” he said.
Mashonaland East leads the number of cases being dealt with by police with six cases, Matabeleland North has four while Masvingo and Mashonaland West have three cases each. Two cases have been handed over to the police in Harare and Matabeleland South while Bulawayo has one case. In some cases recorded in Mashonaland East, a transport operator, C. S. Mudhokwa-ni, allegedly stole two tonnes of Compound D fertilizer he had been contracted to ferry. The fertilizer was recovered and Mudhokwani is on trial at the Marondera Magistrates' Court. Lance Corporal Zunguza of the Zimba-bwe National Army defrauded Maguta of eight tonnes of Ammonium Nitrate, which was stored at GMB Marondera. The fertilizer was recovered while he was convicted and fined $50 billion or 10 days in prison.
An Agritex official, Spain Katema, who allegedly demanded from farmers in Mutoko payment of $10 million for the transportation of each 25kg bag of seed in November last year, was also arrested and $520 million recovered. Mutoko police were still investigating the case. In another case, 18 GMB Timber Mills workers allegedly connived with a security guard at the company and stole 94 bags of maize seed between October 13 and November 15 last year. They was arrested and appeared at Marondera Magistrates' Court where they were remanded out of custody to January 29 this year. Police in Macheke are also investigating a case in which nine bags of maize seed were stolen at U9C Farm while investigations are also underway into the theft of 126 bags of fertilizer and 100 bags of maize seed from a railway wagon in Marondera.
In Mashonaland West, a guard at GMB Lions Den, Clever Taruona, allegedly stole 15 bags of maize seed but the case was not pursued because of lack of evidence. A general hand at Chinhoyi University of Technology, identified as Muponda, allegedly stole 49 pivot sprinklers at Hunyani Farm in Chinhoyi. The case is still pending at Chinhoyi Rural Police Station. On November 16, four soldiers were arrested on allegations of stealing 20 bags of maize seed and seven bags of Compound D fertilizer from Hunyani Farm. All the inputs were recovered and Lance Corporal C. Gurira, Private T. Shayawabaya, Private B. Tshuma and Private A. Chidume were arraigned before a magistrate in Chinhoyi and remanded in custody pending trial. In Masvingo, Boniface Makura, Herbert Mise, Tamuka Matimba and Muphai Muphai were arrested for selling urea and ammonium nitrate fertilizers at a shopping centre in the province. The case is being heard at the Masvingo Magistrates' Court.
Livison Kwangwari, a farmer in the province, was allotted 160 bags of maize seed under Operation Maguta but allegedly later sold it to villagers in Chehudo Ward 26. The matter is still pending at the courts in Masvingo. Police in the province are also investigating a case where 40 litres of Diamathoate, 120 litres of Dicamp, 125 litres of MCPA, 410 litres of Paraquat, 48 litres of Triadiamenol and 50 bags of fertilizer were stolen at Mushandike. In Matabeleland North, Hlamulani Ndebele and Sipho Mkwananzi allegedly stole eight bags of maize seed, four litres of Trialmenol and 40 litres of Altrazine at Arda Balu. Ndebele is on trial while Mkwananzi is still at large. In another case under investigation, Mkwananzi allegedly stole 18 bags of maize seed, two bags of millet seed, five packets of pearl millet seed, 5kg of roundnuts, a knapsack, 20 litres of Diamethoate, 20 litres of Altrazine, five litres of Shavit, and three litres of Thiokill at Arda Balu, but the inputs were recovered.
Saurstown police arrested Danisa Nkomo over the theft of 120kg of maize seed, 30kg of cowpea seed and 2kg of jatropha seed from Arda Balu and the case is still under investigation while Nyamandlovu police were investigating the theft of a portable battery charger from Arda Tendele in Bulawayo. An army officer, Warrant Officer 1 I. Kadzima, is alleged to have stolen 60 litres of diesel at Shashe Irrigation Scheme in Beitbridge. The case will proceed by way of summons. Filabusi police are investigating the theft of 35 500 empty bags belonging to Operation Maguta at Mthwakazi Hall in Insiza. Over the years Government inputs meant for farmers have ended up on the parallel market, undermining agricultural production at a time Zimbabwe is battling to regain its former status as the breadbasket of Southern Africa.
By: Sydney Kawadza
From: The Herald, 22 January 2009
ZWNEWS – 22 January 2009
Source: http://www.zwnews.com