Trevor Ncube has castigated ZANU PF officials for being heartless and corrupt by seeking to gain political capital out of the Tropical Cyclone Idai disaster.
Writing on Twitter, Ncube, who is Alpha Media Holdings (AMH) owner and also a member of the Presidential Advisory Council said:
The distribution of Cyclone Idai donations must be left to NGO’s on the ground and not politicians. The heartless and corrupt Zanu-PF politicians seeking to profit from this crisis must be brought to book.
The MDC has also lambasted ZANU PF for what it calls a lack of concern and heart. Party spokesperson Jacob Mafume said:
They lack concern and heart which is why they flew leather couches to sit comfortably in a crisis and mourning zone.
When reached for comment, ZANU PF national spokesperson Simon Khaya Moyo retorted:
That is absolutely nonsense actually. I had the minister of local government yesterday briefing the Senate on the situation in Manicaland on the aftermath. The position is very clear. No party is involved in the distribution of aid.
And the people volunteered, because no big trucks could go there, people volunteered to take food to those places because people were dying and some of the few Zanu PF people went to the ministry of local government to say they have got cars and can they assist. One or two cars I believe were written by Zanu PF.
The whole exercise is coordinated by the ministry of local government and people out of their empathy were volunteering to give assistance since food was not reaching to the people.
But they were told afterwards that we appreciate your offer but we are not going to be allowing any political party to be involved anymore.
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