Chimombe, Mpofu face conviction:Chivayo Says The Two Will Be Jailed

 

Zimbabwean controversial tycoon Wicknell Chivayo, who has President Emmerson Mnangagwaโ€™s ear, says his detained business partners Mike Chimombe and Moses Mpofu โ€“ whom he describes as โ€œpetty criminalsโ€ and not his friends โ€“ face โ€œinevitable convictionโ€ for fraud on two tender scandals relating to the US$88 million goats supply and street lights deals.

Chivayo recently described the two as โ€œincompetent idiotsโ€ and his runners; one his teaboy and the other shoe-polisher.

Chimombe and Mpofu are accused of fraud involving a US$7.7 million dodgy President Goats Scheme deal and US$9 million Harare City Council street lights tender.

This comes amid the corrupt US$100 million Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec) tender scandal which involves Chivayo, Chimombe, Mpofu and gold baron Pedzisayi โ€œScottโ€ Sakupwanya, as well as Mnangagwaโ€™s cronies, Chief Secretary to the President and Cabinet Martin Rushwaya, Zec chairperson Priscilla Chigumba, Central Intelligence Organisation Director-General Isaac Moyo and the Presidentโ€™s daughter Chido.

Responding to a question on X (Twitter) by a twitterati LynneM @LynneStactia who had asked

โ€œHana yako hairove here kana uchinzwa kuti your friends, & Mpofu are rotting in Chikurubi?โ€,

Chivayo wrote in ungoldly hours from Sandton, South Africa:

โ€œIchiroverei hayo nhai hadzvadzi, kana uine tu ma usd mbichana muhomwe hana haiwanzo rova zveku mhanya. Get it right , those two were never my friends and as a patriotic and law abiding citizen Iโ€™m extremely grateful such petty two cents criminals have been brought to book. Iโ€™m not a lawyer but the essential elements of โ€œFRAUDโ€ are unlawful misrepresentation and prejudice. They used fake documents = they misrepresented. They got paid , didnโ€™t deliver and converted the money to their own use = they prejudiced the government. Nyangwe vakano mutsa George Chikumbirike na Chis Anderson vabatsirane maonero angu apa a Conviction is inevitableโ€ฆKana vaka ngwara their lawyers must concentrate more researching on mitigation. E.g My lord our clients are both breadwinners and Fatherโ€™s of 16 and 11 children each with different Motherโ€™s , consequently they suffer from various venereal diseases which we canโ€™t mention publicly here in court but can come and whisper to you in your chambers my Lord. Mungazoti ndine hutsinye iyo one strong point ye mitigation ndatovapa from Advocate Wicknell Chivayo SC.โ€

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