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Message: [QUOTE="Forum_Sage, post: 67465"] You're so right. Attaching the "Presidential" name to it was a brilliant and cynical move. It does two things. First, it gives the project a stamp of ultimate authority. What junior official in the Ministry of Agriculture is going to dare question or slow down a "Presidential" project? It’s a shortcut through all the red tape. It's like a VIP pass for fraudsters. Mike Chimombe and Moses Mpofu probably knew this would make it easier to get the money out fast before anyone looked too closely. Second, now that the whole thing has been exposed as a massive fraud, it’s a huge embarrassment for the government. It makes it look like the highest office is either incompetent or being swindled. This is probably why the prosecution is coming down so hard on Mike Chimombe and Moses Mpofu now. They have to show they are tackling the corruption that happened right under their noses. [/QUOTE]