PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa\u2019s co-advisers Trevor Ncube has described corruption in government corridors of having reached \u201cfrightening\u201d levels.<\/p>\n
Ncube, who is a member of Mnangagwa\u2019s Presidential Advisory Council (PAC) was speaking in an interview with South African broadcaster e.tv\u2019s Checkpoint Tuesday night over the continued incarceration of journalist Hopewell Chin\u2019ono.<\/p>\n
The journalist was denied bail for the third time Monday. He is facing charges of inciting public violence and has been in remand prison for over a month.<\/p>\n
\u201cI must say that the level of corruption under Emmerson Mnangagwa has just been frightening; it is like a free for all,\u201d Ncube also a media mogul said.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou asked what they are afraid of, they are afraid that you are going to disturb their eating, that is the thing. There is a lot to eat as you have seen if you have been following Hopewell\u2019s tweets and a lot of other tweets, the Covid-19 corruption like we have seen in South Africa, Kenya, and everywhere else, we have had our own bout of Covid-19 corruption.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt does not matter how little there is, for them those who are close to the feeding trough, close to the till \u2018please do not disturb us we are feeding,\u2019 that is what this is all about,\u201d Ncube said.<\/p>\n
Ncube told Checkpoint that the manner in which Chin\u2019ono was being treated as deliberate because the senior ruling Zanu PF party officials knew they have failed, but were conveniently choosing to target the messenger instead of the message.<\/p>\n
Added Ncube: \u201cThe government knows people are unhappy. The (ruling) party knows the people are unhappy, instead of attending to the problems the people are raising, we shoot the messenger, that is not how it is supposed to be.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa\u2019s co-advisers Trevor Ncube has described corruption in government corridors of having reached \u201cfrightening\u201d levels. Ncube, who is a member of Mnangagwa\u2019s Presidential Advisory Council (PAC) was speaking in an interview with South African broadcaster e.tv\u2019s Checkpoint Tuesday night over the continued incarceration of journalist Hopewell Chin\u2019ono. The journalist was denied bail for […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":26927,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,6],"tags":[34,807],"class_list":{"0":"post-26926","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-all-news","8":"category-economy","9":"tag-emmerson-mnangagwa","10":"tag-mthuli-ncube"},"yoast_head":"\n