Chimombe, Mpofu are facing conviction for fraud: Chivayo

ZIMBABWEAN controversial tycoon Wicknel Chivayo, who has President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s ear, says his detained business partners Mike Chimombe and Moses Mpofu — whom he describes as “petty criminals” and not his friends — face “inevitable conviction” for fraud on two tender scandals relating to the US$88 million goats supply and street lights deals.

Chivayo recently described the two as “incompetent idiots” and his runners; one his teaboy and the other shoe-polisher. Chimombe and Mpofu are accused of fraud involving a US$7.7 million dodgy President Goats Scheme deal and US$9 million Harare City Council street lights tender.

This comes amid the corrupt US$100 million Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec) tender scandal which involves Chivayo, Chimombe, Mpofu and gold baron Pedzai “Scott” Sakupwanya, as well as Mnangagwa’s cronies, Chief Secretary to the President and Cabinet Martin Rushwaya, Zec chairperson Priscilla Chigumba, Central Intelligence Organisation Director-General Isaac Moyo and the President’s daughter Chido.

Responding to a question on X (Twitter) by a member of twitterati LynneM@LynneStactia who had asked “Hana yako hairove here kana uchinzwa kuti your friends, (Mike Chimombe) & Mpofu are rotting in Chikurubi?”,

Chivayo wrote in ungoldly hours from Sandton, South Africa: “Ichiroverei hayo nhai hadzvadzi, kana uine tuma usd mbichana muhomwe hana haiwanzo rova zvekumhanya [timid for what? If you have some US dollars you don’t get timid]. Get it right , those two were never my friends and as a patriotic and law abiding citizen I’m extremely grateful such petty two cents criminals have been brought to book. I’m not a lawyer but the essential elements of “FRAUD” are unlawful misrepresentation and prejudice. They used fake documents = they misrepresented. They got paid , didn’t deliver and converted the money to their own use = they prejudiced the government. Nyangwe vakano mutsa George Chikumbirike na Chis Anderson vabatsirane maonero angu apa (the way i see it is that even if you were to ressurrect top lawyers George Chikumbirike and Chris Anderson) a conviction is inevitable… Kana vaka ngwara [if they were clever] their lawyers must concentrate more researching on mitigation. E.g My lord our clients are both breadwinners and Fathers of 16 and 11 children each with different Mothers, consequently they suffer from various venereal diseases which we can’t mention publicly here in court but can come and whisper to you in your chambers my Lord. Mungazoti ndine hutsinye iyo [you may say I’m cruel] one strong point ye mitigation ndatovapa from ‘Advocate’ Wicknell Chivayo SC.”

STAFF WRITER.