Opposition MDC Alliance Vice President Tendai Biti has torn into Local Government Minister July Moyo following the fourth suspension of Harare Mayor Jacob Mafume.
Last week, Moyo suspended Mafume pending the finalisation of his corruption charges before the courts.
However, this has not gone down well with Biti who has accused Moyo of being the most corrupt and destructive Minister.
Below is Biti’s full statement:
If Kirsty Coventry is the worst Minister in this regime July Moyo ranks as most corrupt, most destructive, most deceptive.
For four years he has failed to enact a law actualizing the Devolution provisions in the constitution despite numerous High Court Orders.
Devolution funds allocated from the Budget have essentially become his private slush fund, distributed subjectively.
He has overseen the collapse of local authorities through acceptance of (Douglas) Mwonzora s wanton recalls.
His treatment of mayors is disdainful and unconstitutional.
Mayors are not employees.
But it is July Moyo’s corrupt relationship with land barons that has been most destructive.
He has relationships with crooks such Kenneth Roydon Sharpe and many others prejudicing millions of home seekers and causing environmental degradation through wetland and other illegal developments.
July Moyo has made Ignatius Chombo, the arch land looter look like a saint.
His indulgence in the world of the occult is also a cause for concern.
In Sept 2019 he gathered certain chiefs for some rituals in the Midlands under guise of revival of Rozvi-Moyo dynasty.
He is danger.
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The way June July is handling the post is not proper at all he must reduce the size which he wants to get into
Shuffling mayor is a sign or an ambush which they want to do in the absence of mayor mafume he wants to exercise and stretch and feel how his powers are running In him. Something illegitimate they want to do concerning the issue of land
There by you will hear that some essential papers are missing like what happened in kwekwe city council and July moyo was also in the same train with the thieves
This is a sign that in Zimbabwe we have got a poor government