On this day in 1952, politician Ignatius Morgen Chiminya Chombo was born in the Marondera District of Zimbabwe. Chombo served in the cabinet of Zimbabwe for 15 years under the late president Robert Mugabe. In October 2017, he was appointed Minister of Finance and Economic Development in a cabinet reshuffle and in November, was expelled from the ZANU-PF party by the central committee with together with other prominent Generation 40 politicians following the military take over.
On this day in 2017, Zimbabwe’s former finance minister Ignatius Chombo was abducted in Harare. In giving his report, Chombo pointed out that mysterious man took him and kept him for a week in an incognite location. More important still, at some point he was charged of corruption, but unfortunately Lovemore Madhuku pointed out that it was injustice for the military to arrest Chombo arguing that it was not advisable as far as the constitution of Zimbabwe is concerned to blame someone without providing concrete evidence.