via Armed police help Grace aide invade farm – NewsDay Zimbabwe December 2, 2015
OVER 20 armed police officers reportedly escorted First Lady Grace Mugabe’s aide, Deputy Police Commissioner Olga Bungu, to evict prominent dairy farmer and liberation war sponsor, Gillian Munn from her Mashonganyika Farm in Goromonzi last week.
BY RICHARD CHIDZA
The family claims to have been heavily involved in the liberation war, where they funded Zanu PF war efforts and continued to support the party well into independence. Last Monday, the family and its farm workers had their property thrown out of the farm and dumped outside, where they watched helplessly as the property was soaked by rain.
“Now I have become a hot potato. Emmerson [Vice-President Mnangagwa] knows that my husband was there at Lancaster [House at which the agreement to grant the then Rhodesia independence was inked in 1979]. But now he is scared, he cannot say anything.
“I have spoken to [Douglas] Mombeshora [Lands minister]. He says he wants me to continue going to his office, and instead of resolving this issue, he wants to give me an alternative farm. But I do not need an alternative farm. I want my farm,” she said.
“On Saturday, I was picked up and detained at Goromonzi Police Station until my lawyers came to my rescue. I was in police cells until Sunday. Now I have been moved out by Bungu, but she is still following me around. She wants my dairy equipment”.
Mashonaland East provincial police spokesperson, Nolbert Muzondo said if the farmer had a problem with police conduct, she had a right to lodge a complaint.
“It seems she has a complaint against police and our procedure is that she can use our national complaints desk at Police General Headquarters,” he said, without specifically responding as to whether police had used brute force in the eviction.
Munn is now operating from a nearby farm, where a colleague has sheltered her family.
She said she would be approaching the Constitutional Court (ConCourt) for redress.
“I am going to the ConCourt and I will sue this woman [Bungu] for everything she has. She has disregarded a High Court appeal that should have suspended any other judgment that could have been passed. She wants everything I won, including accusing me of vanadalising my own property. It is insane,” she said.
President Robert Mugabe has in the past reportedly assured the Munns that they would be protected but seems to have developed an indifferent attitude to the divorcee’s plight.
Munn’s late husband owned a printing and publishing company, Munn Publications, which used to publish Prize Magazine to prop up Mugabe’s rag-tag guerilla army during the war.
The 209-hectare farm, registered in 2002, produces nearly 10 000 litres of milk per month, grows about 110 hectares of maize and employs over 100 workers.
COMMENTS
What comes around goes around. The Munns supported Mugabe never expecting to be thrown into the garbage.
ALL THESE YEARS (YOU) HAVE BEEN LIVING LIKE A KING WHILE ALL AROUND YOU SUFFER// I FOR ONE HOPE YOU WILL NOW HAVE TO GO BACK TO “YOUR” KITH AND KIN// IT’S A PIG EAT PIG WORLD OUT THERE (BABY) AND YOU ARE ONE OF THE FATTEST PIGS I HAVE HEARD OF // you have been a SELL OUT to everyone!!!!!! YOU ARE NOT WHITE AND NOW YOU ARE NOT BLACK// ENJOY//
It seems that this poor Mrs Munn never heard of the saying that the British use here a lot, “He who sups with the devil should have a long spoon”. Well it looks like the friendship that the Munns had with this Devil needed a very, very, very long handled spoon. Mrs Munn is now very badly burnt so if she is tempted to have that meal again she should use a very special long handled spoon, perhaps one made from a 30-meter gum pole. Now it is Mrs Munn’s turn to taste the bitterness and hatred that us Zimbabwe borns living far from home have to taste almost every day.
But I must have to admit that I could not but be shocked by the impudence and cheek of Policewoman Deputy Commissioner Olga Bungu. Not only did she steal the woman’s farm but also demanded that she hand over all her farming and dairy equipment as well. Goodness perhaps it is a good thing that Mr Munn is late or she would have been demanding him as well. But there is no need for us to look far to learn where Olga learned her dirty tricks…she had Amazing DisGrace PhD as her mentor. Her PhD thesis could easily have been, “How to steal a prosperous farm and then ruin it”…but we will never know, as no one has yet seen her PhD dissertation.
But I also had to smile at how Mnangagwa, Mombeshora, and even Mad Bob himself hid from their old friend Mrs Munn when she needed them most. All three know nothing about Decency, Ethics, Integrity, Honesty, Accountability etc…I could go on forever but I won’t bore you.
Good luck Mrs Munn at the Constitutional Court…more than others in a similar situation have had in the past. But even the worthy judges there must now know that the writing is on ZANU PF’s wall and they might be tempted to give an honest judgement for a change. That is called “Job Preservation 101” by the way!…but not quite a PhD!
rot in hell munn
you peasant
This is another land reform success story for Mugabe and his No. 1 Spin Doctor – Dr. Scoones. Zanu are just such nice people.
Hahaha maybe you should ask Jeremy Corbin for help, he is also a terrorist sympathizer, when will all you do gooders learn
Just shows really who is the real boss, Disgrace, and she sure doesn’t care or have any values other than power and greed..
This is even better than “CECIL THE LION” story
Venomous Snakes Do Not Make Good Bedfellows and the country is a wash with them critters.
The numbers are growing with the daily lay offs now at 80%.