I have an opinion on Al Jazeera’s #GoldMafia documentary and I’ll try and write them carefully. I genuinely believe this and I just don’t want my words to be misconstrued.

In short, I hope the government takes the allegations seriously as this is something that can’t be ignored. The documentary poses some serious documentary risk to our nation’s reputation.

I’d like to think that they were diligently trying to find investment opportunities and ways to address the nation’s liquidity crunch but it was taken advantage of by trusted individuals and strangers with money to hide. That’s probably the best defense you can make and while it’s not exactly ethical, I understand. They need to show that such criminality won’t be tolerated and aggressively pursue those responsible, successfully.

I don’t want to think that the country is actually a criminal enterprise engaged in (or at least willingly facilitating) money laundering just because some “pastor” wanted another 50K watch while public hospitals lack medicine.

The fortunes that have fled this nation could have been used to pay healthcare workers instead of imprisoning them for complaining, invest in infrastructure to build this nation instead of throwing large amounts of money to petrostates to fuel generators just to be economically uncompetitive and alleviate poverty rather than having drug addicted kids and teen pregnancies.

Zimbabwe is too wonderful of a country to be taken advantage of like this.