Joram Macdonald Gumbo is a Zimbabwean politician, member of parliament, former member of the
Pan-African Parliament
The Pan-African Parliament (PAP), also known as the African Parliament, is the legislative body of the African Union. It held its inaugural session in March 2004. The Parliament exercises oversight, and has advisory and consultative powers, ha ...
from
Zimbabwe
Zimbabwe (), officially the Republic of Zimbabwe, is a landlocked country located in Southeast Africa, between the Zambezi and Limpopo Rivers, bordered by South Africa to the south, Botswana to the south-west, Zambia to the north, and Mozam ...
, and former cabinet minister. He is a member of the
Zanu-PF party.
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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.
In the 2013 elections, although he was opposed by his own younger brother, Tinashe Gumbo, a representative of the
MDC-T party, 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.
In 2010, Gumbo was appointed by President Mugabe as Zimbabwe's representative to the Pan-African Parliament.
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.
In 2015 Gumbo was appointed as Minister of Transport and Infrastructural Development, replacing
Obert Mpofu
Obert Moses Mpofu is a Zimbabwean politician, who served as Minister of Home Affairs from 2017 to September 2018. Previously he was Minister of Macro-Economic Planning and Investment Promotion; Minister of Industry and International Trade; Minis ...
.
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.
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) and Zimbabwe Airways.
In November 2019, the
Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission
Corruption in Zimbabwe has become endemic within its political, private and civil sectors. Zimbabwe, along with Honduras, Iraq, and Cambodia, ranks 157th out of 180 countries in the 2021 Transparency International Corruption Perceptions Index, wh ...
(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.
See also
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List of members of the Pan-African Parliament
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Organizations
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References
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
Members of the Pan-African Parliament from Zimbabwe
Members of the National Assembly of Zimbabwe
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