Browsing: Tendai Biti

Former Finance Minister and opposition leader commenting on the unfolding events in Zimbabwe. He says Zimbabwe is effectively a military state and the army has the power to recall whoever has stopped serving their interests.

Tendai Biti has accused Finance Minister Patrick Chinamasa of ‘stealing’ money from the central bank to fund excessive expenditure by the regime, which caused crippling cash shortages. He says President Robert Mugabe takes at least US$4million per foreign trip and his entourage has deliberately made him into a ‘permanent resident of the skies’ in order to loot Zimbabwe, with their own per diems.