ZIMBABWE’S TOP OFFICIALS HAVE BEEN GIVEN UNTIL THE END OF FEBRUARY TO DECLARE ASSET.

Cabinet ministers and senior government officials in Zimbabwe to declare their assets.

President Emmerson Mnangagwa in his fight against corruption in Zimbabwe  has given the cabinet ministers and senior government officials until the end of february to declare their assets.

Misheck Sibanda, chief secretary to the president and cabinet, said in a statement that it was now compulsory  for cabinet ministers, their deputies, senior government officials and bosses of state-owned businesses to declare their assets. Sibanda said that “the president expects the full and urgent cooperation of all the affected office bearers.”

President Mnangagwa in a bid to lure foreign investment is attending the World Economic Forum in Davos. He is the first Zimbabwe an president to attend this forum.

Under Mugabe’s four-decade rule, few government officials were arrested for corruption. When the military announced it had put Mugabe under house arrest on Nov. 15 2017, it said it was targeting criminals that surrounded the 93-year-old leader.

Since then, three former government ministers and allies of Mugabe have been arrested and charged in court for criminal abuse of office.