Written on 09/03/2014, 17:29 by
The Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission and the army should be given arresting powers to adequately deal with corruption in the country because right now no one is policing the police.
The Member of Parliament for Hurungwe West, Themba Mliswa, said although the country had a corruption watchdog, it had no teeth. This was allowing the Zimbabwe Republic Police to be corrupt because no one had powers to arrest them except their own members.
"The Anti-Corruption Commission must be given arresting powers and in being given arresting powers, we are able to deal with corruption. The issue of the Anti-Corruption Commission not having arresting powers is certainly allowing even the ZRP itself to be corrupt.
"Who will arrest the ZRP when they are corrupt? However, if we empower many organisations such as the Defence to have arresting powers, we will certainly come up with a situation where the police are being policed. In so doing,...
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Written on 08/03/2014, 15:35 by
Movement for Democratic Change Member of Parliament for Musikavanhu Prosper Mutseyami says the current debate on corruption in parliament should not just be talk. Those who stole must be arrested and the money they stole must be recovered.
Mutseyami said corruption was rampant in parastatals because there was no adequate supervision. He said some people were sitting on the boards of seven to nine parastatals so that they could make money.
"Parliament should put a stop to that practice...... The problem is...
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Written on 07/03/2014, 15:30 by
The Movement for Democratic Change National Council has suspended deputy treasurer-general Elton Mangoma for ignoring the directive of the National Executive not to discuss party business through the press and fanning factionalism within the Party.
MDC National Council Suspends Hon. Mangoma
Today, the MDC National Council suspended Hon. Elton Mangoma as the Deputy Treasurer General of the party pending the appearance before an Independent Disciplinary Tribunal in terms of the Constitution of the MDC.
After extensive debate, the National Council resolved...
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Written on 08/03/2014, 08:17 by
Bikita West Member of Parliament Munyaradzi Kereke says reviving the country's economy is the only way to combat corruption because "when the economy is underperforming, the civil service is underpaid, the private sector keeps workers without paying salaries; it becomes a haven for corruption".
Kereke, the former advisor to the former Reserve Bank governor Gideon Gono, said: "People who are supposed to be doing their work as they have signed up for, start to bargain for favours and you have people...
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Written on 07/03/2014, 17:10 by
Members of Parliament insisted that they had to play an oversight role on corruption in the country with Mutasa South Member of Parliament Irene Zindi sponsoring a motion for the setting up of an 18-member Parliamentary Committee to do that.
The government on Tuesday announced the establishment of an agency to oversee the appointments of board members and chief executive officers of all state enterprises, but Zindi said parliament had to play a key role because this was provided for in...
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Written on 07/03/2014, 10:20 by
Mugabe threatens to deal with gays -President Robert Mugabe today threatened to deal with the Gays and Lesbians Association of Zimbabwe saying he was not aware that there was such an organisation in the country. "I understand muno mune chigroup chehomesexuality. Handina kunge ndachiziva ndakaudzwa marimwezuro kuti kune chigroup ichocho saka tinoda kuchiwona kuti ndivanani varimo," he said, meaning he understood that there was an association of homosexuals and he had only been informed about it two days before so...
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Written on 07/03/2014, 07:26 by
A Member of Parliament has said that some government ministers in Zimbabwe are so corrupt that if they shake hands with you, you have to check whether they have not stolen a finger.
The MP for Mabvuku, James Maridadi, who is also the former spokesman for former Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai, said there were indeed some ministers who were very clean and hard working but "there are also ministers that are so corrupt that when they say good afternoon to you,...
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Written on 06/03/2014, 23:32 by
The Speaker of Parliament Jacob Mudenda had to issue a ruling on Wednesday calling on Members of Parliament not to make unsubstantiated allegations in parliament following a spate of accusations mostly centred around corruption which has rocked the country in recent weeks following what has now been dubbed salarygate. Here is his full statement:
SPEAKER'S RULING
UNSUBSTANTIATED UTTERANCES BY MEMBERS OF PARLIAMENT
MR. SPEAKER: The House has witnessed violation of the Constitution, the Privileges, Immunities and Powers of Parliament Act [Chapter 2:08] and...
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Written on 06/03/2014, 16:16 by
The Member of Parliament for Bulilima East Mathias Ndlovu said the high salaries that were being paid to chief executives of state enterprises were the creation of the Movement for Democratic Change and they deliberately inflated the salaries.
He did not say why.
In one of the shortest contribution to the motion on good governance where legislators from both the Movement for Democratic Change and the Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front have roundly condemned corruption and have called for the setting up...
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Written on 06/03/2014, 12:50 by
Movement for Democratic Change Shadow Minister for Agriculture Samuel Sipepa Nkomo has called for an urgent land audit saying First Lady Grace Mugabe has grabbed 800 hectares of prime land in Mazowe leaving hundreds of workers unemployed and homeless.
Nkomo, the former Minister of Water, said in a statement today that the Zimbabwe Land Commission should be set up urgently in line with the country's constitution to carry out a comprehensive, transparent and non-partisan audit to weed out greedy multiple farm...
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Written on 06/03/2014, 10:18 by
Binga North Member of Parliament Dubeko Sibanda said he did not believe that the executive, which comprises President Robert Mugabe and his cabinet, can end corruption because some of them were involved in corrupt activities.
He said the executive had not taken any action on corrupt activities so far exposed and cited 19 cases of high-level corruption but government had only acted on one, the Willowvale car scandal.
"We have got a scenario in this country where people who run down parastatals...
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