{"id":3953,"date":"2017-11-28T22:12:54","date_gmt":"2017-11-29T05:12:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nigerianews.ca\/?p=3953"},"modified":"2017-11-28T22:12:54","modified_gmt":"2017-11-29T05:12:54","slug":"zimbabwe-president-offers-amnesty-funds-stashed-abroad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nigerianews.ca\/zimbabwe-president-offers-amnesty-funds-stashed-abroad\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Zimbabwe President offers amnesty for funds stashed abroad?"},"content":{"rendered":"
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29 November 2017:\u00a0Zimbabwe’s new President Emmerson Mnangagwa has offered a 3-month amnesty for individuals and companies to surrender public funds illegally stashed abroad.<\/p>\n
In a statement, he said the government will prosecute those who fail to comply when the amnesty ends in February, 2017.<\/p>\n
“Such malpractices constitute a very serious economic crime against the people of Zimbabwe,” Mr Mnangagwa said.<\/p>\n
Since taking office last week, he has pledged to crack down on corruption.<\/p>\n
Will Mnangagwa be different from Mugabe?<\/p>\n
“Huge sums of money and other assets” have been “illegally externalised by certain individuals and corporates,” the president said in a statement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
29 November 2017:\u00a0Zimbabwe’s new President Emmerson Mnangagwa has offered a 3-month amnesty for individuals and companies to surrender public funds illegally stashed abroad. In a statement, he said the government will prosecute those who fail to comply when the amnesty ends in February, 2017. “Such malpractices constitute a very serious economic crime against the people […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[49],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"\n