ZANU PF’s Member of Parliament for Gokwe-Nembudziya, Justice Mayor Wadyajena, has told the Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission (ZACC) to seize every piece of property he owns saying he would relocate to Gokwe.
Wadyajena who is facing US$5 million corruption charges and was arrested alongside four Cotton Company (Cottco) senior managers last week made the remarks in his constituency where he received a hero’s welcome.
His remarks come barely a week after he was granted ZW$200 000 by a Harare magistrate after spending two nights in custody over the alleged diversion of funds meant for subsistence farmers to his truck business.
Some 22 trucks registered under Mayor Logistics were Monday seized by ZACC, two days after two top-of-the-range vehicles were impounded in Beitbridge, with reports indicating he was trying to smuggle them out of the country.
Meanwhile, the High Court has issued a 30-day order to attach Wadyajena’s whole fleet of trucks but he says he is not moved. He said while addressing ZANU PF supporters at a local school in his constituency:
Let them take the trucks, let them take cars, even if they want to take my houses let them come and take them.
I came from this area, if things go bad I will come back. I left this area with a bag and if things do not work out I will come back with my bag.
I have heard people say I will go to parliament on a bicycle or a ZUPCO, what is wrong with that? Are those who use bicycles and buses not people? I will use those.
Hopewell Chin’ono, a local journalist, believes that if Wadyajena whom he regards as a “small fish” stole at least $5 million, then his seniors must have stolen billions to the detriment of the south African country.
He claims Zimbabwe’s economy collapsed and is in a parlous state due to corruption.