{"id":98920,"date":"2024-09-25T12:52:03","date_gmt":"2024-09-25T10:52:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/tsenengamu-quits-politics-leads-anti-corruption-fight"},"modified":"2024-09-25T14:54:42","modified_gmt":"2024-09-25T12:54:42","slug":"tsenengamu-quits-politics-leads-anti-corruption-fight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.cc\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/tsenengamu-quits-politics-leads-anti-corruption-fight","title":{"rendered":"Tsenengamu quits politics, leads anti-corruption fight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Zimbabwe. <\/strong><\/span>FORMER ZANU-PF youth national political commissioner Godfrey Tsenengamu yesterday claimed that he had \u201cquit\u201d politics to focus on fighting corruption.<\/p>\n<p>Tsenengamu, who is no stranger to controversy, said his anti-graft fight would be co-ordinated under his newly-formed Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Citizen\u2019s Task Force.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am here to tell Zimbabweans, it is high time we must work together to fight this menace of corruption,\u201d Tsenengamu told journalists at a Press conference in Harare yesterday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe tried it when we formed the Front for Economic Emancipation in Zimbabwe, but we realised that you cannot fight corruption effectively under the banner of a political party.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In May this year, he said he was returning to Zanu PF.<\/p>\n<p>Tsenengamu was suspended from the ruling party in 2020 for exposing corrupt Zanu PF-linked businesspersons.<\/p>\n<p>Yesterday, he was singing a different tune saying the decision to rejoin Zanu PF was premature.<\/p>\n<p>He claimed that the Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Citizens Task Force was registered four years ago, but was not operational.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is a legally registered institution, which can report any individual with a rightful authority. We are going to be whistleblowing big time,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe don\u2019t care whether you are from this party or that political party. We don\u2019t care whether you have the support of that powerful individual or this powerful individual. We are not going to be fighting against institutions.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Last week, Vice-President Constantino Chiwenga bemoaned high levels of corruption in the country saying the vice was posing a security threat.<\/p>\n<p>Just after the military coup when he assumed power in November 2017, President Emmerson Mnangagwa promised to fight graft.<\/p>\n<p>However, reports have implicated his associates such as tenderpreneur Wicknell Chivayo in the milking of millions from the State coffers through corrupt and inflated tenders.<\/p>\n<p><strong>For More News And Analysis About Zimbabwe Follow Africa-Press<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Zimbabwe. FORMER ZANU-PF youth national political commissioner Godfrey Tsenengamu yesterday claimed that he had \u201cquit\u201d politics to focus on fighting corruption. Tsenengamu, who is no stranger to controversy, said his anti-graft fight would be co-ordinated under his newly-formed Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Citizen\u2019s Task Force. \u201cI am here to tell Zimbabweans, it is high time [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":98919,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,12],"tags":[19],"class_list":{"0":"post-98920","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-all-news","8":"category-policy","9":"tag-zimbabwe"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v24.1 (Yoast SEO v24.1) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Tsenengamu quits politics, leads anti-corruption fight - zimbabwe<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"FORMER ZANU-PF youth national political commissioner Godfrey Tsenengamu yesterday claimed that he had \u201cquit\u201d politics to ...\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/tsenengamu-quits-politics-leads-anti-corruption-fight\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Tsenengamu quits politics, leads anti-corruption fight\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"FORMER ZANU-PF youth national political commissioner Godfrey Tsenengamu yesterday claimed that he had \u201cquit\u201d politics to ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/tsenengamu-quits-politics-leads-anti-corruption-fight\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"zimbabwe\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2024-09-25T10:52:03+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2024-09-25T12:54:42+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/sites\/14\/2024\/09\/sm_1727256261.208293.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"800\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"500\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/tsenengamu-quits-politics-leads-anti-corruption-fight\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/tsenengamu-quits-politics-leads-anti-corruption-fight\",\"name\":\"Tsenengamu quits politics, leads anti-corruption fight - 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