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Award-winning journalist Hopewell Chin’ono said that the 32 choppers bought by the Government from Russia are overpriced and the purchase of the planes is a manifestation of misplaced priorities.

Posting on Twitter, Chin’ono said each Kazan Ansat chopper costs US$2.5 million but the Zimbabwean Government paid US$10 million for each. Wrote Chin’ono:

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> Now that we know a brand new Kazan Ansat helicopter like the ones ZANUPF Government brought from Russia costs US$2.5 million, and that ZANU PF said it paid US$10 million for each of the 32 choppers totaling US$320 million, do you now see what I meant when I said that this was looting of public funds!

> Opposition politicians, please go and do your work, the data is here, and whilst at it, find out whether this was not a donation after all.

> If it wasn’t a donation, find out if these choppers are brand new.

> If there are brand new, it means US$240 million was LOOTED.

> US$240 million would run all of Zimbabwe’s central hospitals for 5 years, it would buy 120 radiotherapy cancer treatment machines, it would build 6,486 maternity theaters.

> Zimbabwe doesn’t have a single working radiotherapy cancer machine, its biggest hospital only has one working maternity theater built in 1977 by Ian Smith’s regime.

> Its central hospitals don’t have IV paracetamol and the whole caps Itai city has less than 15 dialysis machines that are working.

> A dialysis machine costs as little as US$2000, the loot of US$240 million would buy 120,000 dialysis machines!

> What was that Statutory Instrument for, by the way, the illegal one that didn’t want you to know the price of hospital equipment including ambulances?

> Air ambulances, oh, I see!

According to Team Pachedu, Russia “dumped” the helicopters in Zimbabwe as is no more engine support for Ansat helicopters which the southern African country bought. Said Team Pachedu:

> Russia dumped helicopters in Zimbabwe. Pratt & Whitney (Canada) stopped supplying Russia with PW207K engines due to sanctions & Russia is now replacing them with Russian VK-650V engines.

> There is no more engine support for Ansat helicopters and these are what Zimbabwe got.

According to ZimLive, the Ansat is built to a classic single-rotor design with a four-blade main rotor and a two-blade tail rotor.

It has a top speed of 275 km/h and can fly non-stop for 505 kilometers at a maximum height of 18,000 feet (5,500 meters).

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