“Good governance and the rule of law do not occupy the highest rungs of the priority ladder,” it adds, while urging Mugabe to desist from appointing to high office individuals who have been implicated in corruption.
“Corrupt leaders must apologise to the nation, resign and forfeit the property they gained through corrupt means. As a matter of emergency, the State President must address the nation to assure restive Zimbabweans that the government and relevant stakeholders are working flat out to arrest the situation,” it says.
The report recommends that parliamentarians and senators should declare their assets first before taking office and a register, which should be accessible to the public should be kept to guard against looting of government funds and resources.
“Good governance and the rule of law do not occupy the highest rungs of the priority ladder,” it adds, while urging Mugabe to desist from appointing to high office individuals who have been implicated in corruption.
The culture of impunity has seen looters walking scot free while most of the population wallows in abject poverty. The report focuses on numerous scandals over the past 20 years such as those involving Willowgate, the Harare International Airport extension, the Zimbabwe United Passenger Company, the Zimbabwe Iron and Steel Corporation, farming inputs and implements, Air Zimbabwe, the Constituency Development Fund and the diamonds.
ACT says the most disturbing thing is that besides failure to ensure that action is taken against the perpetrators, Mugabe has gone on to appoint many of them to public office.
Officials named in the report include Transport Minister, Obert Mpofu, who has reportedly accumulated vast wealth that has raised more questions than answers, and Local Government Minister Ignatius Chombo and businessman Phillip Chiyangwa whose divorce cases revealed their vast wealth.
Those linked to the ZISCO Steel scandal include Vice President Joice Mujuru, who in 2003 was reportedly paid $11,000 by the company’s Botswana subsidiaries, Ramotswa and Tswana Steel. According to the report, she also received 30,000 litres of fuel from ZISCO on her election as Vice President in 2004.
“Quite worrisome is the manner in which all those who have unresolved cases of corruption continue to be recycled and enjoy the benefits of public office while new cases of outrageous hefty salaries for CEOs in Zimbabwean parastatals have unmasked cases of self-interest and corruption. Zimbabwe is yet to witness the arrest of these bigwigs fingered in graft,” says the report.
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Are they talking of the Mugabe I know or they are talking about another Mugabe. If they are referring to Mugabe the one I know, the one who committed adultery’s with a subordinate’s wife and eventually stole same, the Mugabe of Gukurahundi, the shouting Mugabe vanquisher of the Zimdollar, murder of both white and black etc etc If this is the one then why are you wasting your time and the reader’s time. That Mugabe will never listen to advice unless its about how to stay in power. While appearing to bemoan corruption his wife, cousins, brother inlaws are busy looting. Now tell me, Mugabe may have become partially insane but when it comes to self preservation the old donkey does not forget. Mugabe knows fully well that if he was to put effort of give a real mandate for prosecution of corrupt government officials he would be literary pulling the carpet from under his very feet!