Joram Gumbo
Template:Short description Template:Use British English Template:Use dmy dates Joram Macdonald Gumbo is a Zimbabwean politician, member of parliament, former member of the Pan-African Parliament from Zimbabwe, and former cabinet minister. He is a member of the Zanu-PF party.[1]
Career
Shortly after independence Gumbo was elected as a member of the Zimbabwe House of Assembly for Mberengwa West in the Midlands province. He was reelected every election.[1][2] In the 2013 elections, although he was opposed by his own younger brother, Tinashe Gumbo, a representative of the MDC-T party,[3] he was reelected. He was again reelected in the 2018 elections.
In 1995 Gumbo became the "Chief Whip" of the ZANU-PF party, which office he held until resigning in 2015.[4]
In 2010, Gumbo was appointed by President Mugabe as Zimbabwe's representative to the Pan-African Parliament.[5]
In 2014, Gumbo was appointed ZANU-PF party secretary for education, a party politburo post, taking over from Sikhanyiso Ndlovu, at the ZANU PF 6th National People's Congress.[6]
In 2015 Gumbo was appointed as Minister of Transport and Infrastructural Development, replacing Obert Mpofu.[7]
In 2018 he was appointed as Minister of Energy and Power Development, but was reassigned by President in early 2019 to become a Minister of State in the President's Office in Charge of Policy Implementation.[8][9]
Charges and arrest
Following Gumbo's tenure as Minister of Transport and Infrastructural Development there were allegations of mishandling funds from Zinara (Zimbabwe National Road Authority)[10][11] and Zimbabwe Airways.[12]
In November 2019, the Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission (ZACC) issued a warrant for Gumbo's arrest alleging irregularities in the purchase for Zimbabwe Airways of four Boeing 777-200 planes from Malaysian Airlines while he was Minister of Transport.[8]
See also
References
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