Opinion / Columnist
VP Mnangagwa says corruption 'stifling' economic recovery and acts - but target only sacked leaders
20 Dec 2014 at 06:10hrs | Views
VP Mnangagwa announced that decisive action will be taken to end corruption. He said corruption has been stifling development and economic recovery. That is totally refreshing because for decades the regime has repeated refused to acknowledge that there was corruption much less that it was stifling economic recovery.
There is no doubt that corruption is a serious problem but there is also no doubt that this government will never solve this problem for one simple reason: it does not have the political will to deal with it. There are reports that search warrantees have already been issued to investigate many of those who were recently purged from the party. Well this is welcome no one will believe the nonsense that it was only those recently purged from the party who were corrupt everyone else is squeaky clean.
In fact corruption has been a problem for decades; it has not just stifled economic recovery, it is the one that has helped destroy the economy.
Zanu PF has refused to acknowledge corruption was a problem for all these years because it did not want to accept that its party members were corrupt. It was this denial that has allowed corruption to grow and spread. Corrupt has since become so rampant there is no way the nation economy will ever recovery without first removing this cancerous tumour.
By targeting only those politicians who have been sacked from the party the regime is once again reverting to its default position of denying that any of the politicians and officials who have remain in power are corrupt.
The economic meltdown now gripping the nation and causing untold suffering on millions of people will continue to get worse until measures are taken to end all corruption and not just some of it. Since this Zanu PF regime does not have the political will to end all corruption the regime must step down now to allow for free, fair and credible elections and election of a new regime with the political will to end corruption and all the other problems. If Zanu PF does not step down now it will be forced out of office because the economic meltdown cannot be allowed to get any worse than this.
There is no doubt that corruption is a serious problem but there is also no doubt that this government will never solve this problem for one simple reason: it does not have the political will to deal with it. There are reports that search warrantees have already been issued to investigate many of those who were recently purged from the party. Well this is welcome no one will believe the nonsense that it was only those recently purged from the party who were corrupt everyone else is squeaky clean.
In fact corruption has been a problem for decades; it has not just stifled economic recovery, it is the one that has helped destroy the economy.
By targeting only those politicians who have been sacked from the party the regime is once again reverting to its default position of denying that any of the politicians and officials who have remain in power are corrupt.
The economic meltdown now gripping the nation and causing untold suffering on millions of people will continue to get worse until measures are taken to end all corruption and not just some of it. Since this Zanu PF regime does not have the political will to end all corruption the regime must step down now to allow for free, fair and credible elections and election of a new regime with the political will to end corruption and all the other problems. If Zanu PF does not step down now it will be forced out of office because the economic meltdown cannot be allowed to get any worse than this.
Source - Wilbert Mukori
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