Source: Shumbayaonda new Airforce boss – DailyNews Live
Blessings Mashaya 7 December 2017
HARARE – Air Vice Marshal Shebba Shumbayaonda has replaced Perrance Shiri
as Air Force boss on an acting basis, President Emerson Mnangagwa said at
the unveiling of the name change of KG VI to Josiah Magama Tongogara
barracks in Harare yesterday.
Shiri is now Lands minister in President Mnangagwa’s new Cabinet sworn in
on Monday.
A former Air Commodore, Shumbayaonda was promoted to the rank of Air
Vice-Marshal in April 2011. He joined the Airforce of Zimbabwe as Air Sub
Lieutenant on April 1, 1980, rising through the ranks.
It is not clear who has replaced Major General Sibusiso Moyo, who appeared
on State television on the morning of November 15 to announce the military
intervention with the memorable words “the situation in our country has
moved to a new level.” Moyo is the new Foreign minister.
Efforts to get a comment from Mnangagwa at the ceremony if Moyo and Shiri
had resigned from the armed forces were futile.
Mnangagwa said Aaron Nhepera is now the acting director general in the
President’s Department, replacing Happyton Bonyongwe who served briefly as
Justice, Legal and Parliamentary Affairs minister.
Bonyongwe became one of the shortest lived Cabinet ministers after he was
replaced by Zvimba West legislator, Ziyambi Ziyambi, a month into the job.
Yesterday, the Daily News correctly reported a shake-up was looming in the
security sector as Mnangagwa moves to fill in the vacancies occasioned by
the elevation of top service chiefs before and after the dramatic exit of
his predecessor, Robert Mugabe.
By virtue of their Cabinet appointments, Shiri and Moyo automatically
relinquished their positions in the security service.
Section 106(2) of the Constitution does not allow vice presidents,
ministers and deputy ministers to directly or indirectly hold any other
public office or undertake in any paid work during their tenure of office.
In the secret service, the office of director-general of the Central
Intelligence Organisation has been vacant since October when Bonyongwe was
appointed Justice, Legal and Parliamentary Affairs minister by Mugabe.
Meanwhile, Mnangagwa said his priorities on economic recovery is to
introduce cost-cutting measures, stamping out corruption and plugging all
resource leakages wherever they have occurred.
“This includes the compelling need to ensure that all those who looted
State resources return them or else the long arm of the State will catch
up with them.
“As the economy improves, it also gives us the room to improve your
conditions of service particularly in the area of institutional
accommodation where we can leverage on the abundant engineering skills
amongst ZDF members,” Mnangagwa said later at the graduation ceremony at
Zimbabwe Staff College.
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