‘Zimbabwe Ministers Looted Free Farming Inputs Meant for Poor Farmers’
05 March 2012
Vice President Joice Mujuru was quoted in the state controlled Herald
newspaper as saying the cabinet ministers and some ZANU-PF and GMB officials
are believed to have resold the inputs including ammonium nitrate and maize
seed to unsuspecting farmers
Gibbs Dube | Washington
Vice President Joice Mujuru says some cabinet ministers are suspected to
have been involved in the looting of state subsidised farming inputs this
year provided by the Grain Marketing Board (GMB).
Mujuru is quoted in the state controlled Herald newspaper as saying the
cabinet ministers and some Zanu-PF and GMB officials are believed to have
resold the inputs including ammonium nitrate and maize seed to unsuspecting
farmers.
The vice president said she recently informed President Robert Mugabe about
the suspicious activities of some of the corrupt cabinet ministers believed
to be involved in the GMB scam.
Mujuru, who did not reveal the names of the ministers, further said Zanu-PF
members are being seriously divided by free agricultural inputs.
The agricultural season plunged into a crisis this year after the farming
inputs were looted.
Deputy Agricuture Minister Seiso Moyo said government does not have the
names of the ministers involved in the GMB farming inputs scandal.