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Tendai Mugabe Senior Reporter
Government will stand with the people duped by land barons in urban areas and provide requisite sanitation facilities while the culprits who milked citizens of their hard earned cash will face the full wrath of the law, President Mnangagwa has said.

The President said he had received the report of the Commission of Inquiry tasked to investigate the sale of State land in urban areas which showed glaring anomalies that needed to be addressed. Addressing the 335th session ordinary session of the Politburo that marked the beginning of the Zanu-PF 18th National People’s Conference in Harare today, President Mnangagwa said the law would be applied without fear or favour.

“Yesterday, I received the report of the Commission of Inquiry into the sale of State land in urban areas,” said President Mnangagwa.
“The report contains glaring excesses which we must correct and bring the guilty parties to account without fear or favour. The Government, the National Prosecuting Authority, Zimbabwe Republic Police and the Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission must interest themselves in the findings of that report. Meanwhile, we as a party will not allow a situation where 39 years after independence some of our citizens live in squalid conditions with no clean water, sanitation, roads and other social amenities.

“The party stands with the victims who suffered and lost their hard earned money at the hands of the unscrupulous, corrupt and greedy land barons. The law will take its course without fear or favour in this regard.”

With regards to the National People’s Conference, President Mnangagwa said he was confident that adequate preparations were put in place to ensure that the meeting was a huge success.