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5:07 CAT | 16 Jan 2018
AFP / Zimbabwe was the world's eighth largest diamond exporter in 2014
Former president Robert Mugabe is to be summoned to Zimbabwe’s parliament “to expand on allegations he made in 2016 that $15bn (£11bn) worth of diamond revenue went missing”, the privately owned news site NewsDay reports.
At the time, Mr Mugabe blamed foreign companies for “swindling” and “smuggling” the commodity in an interview with state-run ZBC TV.
The new site reports that the government’s mining and energy committee also plans to question Home Affairs Minister Obert Mpofu, a former mining minister, and his successor, Walter Chidakwa, over the disappearance of the diamond revenue during their time in office.
“There are no sacred cows,” the MP in charge of the committee – Temba Mliswa – reportedly said, adding, “there is nothing that even stops us from calling Mugabe”.
However he has not said when the ex-president would be summoned.
Source: BBC
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