Some new employees in the organisation’s training school have been accused of buying expensive vehicles by doing underhand deals. Zimra’s Chief of Corporate Communications, Taungana Ndoro, confirmed that employees were being made to declare personal assets, but could not give further details saying he was awaiting information from the Internal Employee Relations department.
Early this year Zimra Commissioner General Gershom Pasi admitted to Parliament that rampant corruption was inhibiting national economic growth. He also acknowledged that his organisation would be taking employees on a tour of prisons.
ZIMRA has reached an agreement with the prison services that will see both recruits and some senior employees getting a feel of the country’s prisons as part of shock therapy to help curb corruption.