Tsvangirai accuses Sunday Mail of trying to tarnish his image through fabrications against his children

Mr Tsvangirai’s distaste of graft and avarice is a matter of public record as he was the first political leader in the country to fire an entire council for corruption when he dismissed all the MDC councilors in Chitungwiza on grounds of abusing their offices for corrupt ends. 

We are, however, aware of one Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission senior official, linked to one of the Zanu PF factions, who has been moving around the city bragging that they will soil Tsvangirai’s name ahead of the next election. He has also hinted that they are equally targeting senior MDC officials, specifically Vice Presidents Thokozani Khupe and Nelson Chamisa, on yet more trumped-up charges of having corruptly acquired residential stands in Harare.

We wish him good luck in that endeavor.

It is such characters who damage the reputation of the Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission, which has so far done a lot of good work in investigating corruption even in high places in line with its Constitutional mandate.  We urge the Commission to do its work without fear or favour as we are aware that its otherwise good reputation is being undermined by the misguided chatter-box who is abusing the Commission to push a purely political and factional agenda ahead of the next election by dragging innocent names in the mud.

Luke Tamborinyoka
Presidential Spokesperson and Director of Communications
Movement for Democratic Change

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