Published: 25 February 2014

In a major and embarrassing U-turn, President Mugabe has exonerated former Zimbabwe Mining development Corporation chairperson Godwills Masimirembwa for allegedly soliciting a $6 million bribe from Ghananian investors in the Gye Nyame Resources diamond concession.

This comes as the Zanu-PF leader had in September "outed" the Mabvuku-Tafara parliamentary aspirant for taking money from William Ato Essien's Bill Minerals.

The about-face inadvertently, forced the 90-year old president to adopt "a cautious approach" in tackling the latest corruption scandals engulfing his administration.

Mugabe's admission that the Ghananians were fraudsters vindicates the Daily News, which last year ran a series of stories exposing Essien and his partner.
- dailynews

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