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AMHVoices: Anti-Corruption Commission a mere Zanu PF tool

AMH Voices
Even a blind man doesn’t need any miracle to see through this nonsense.

Thank God something very strange happened and it came when the majority of Zimbabweans were in the dark. Even a blind man doesn’t need any miracle to see through this nonsense.

Chondonda Choguma,Our Reader

Harare mayor, Bernard Manyenyeni
Harare mayor, Bernard Manyenyeni

All along, people had come to believe that this body by the name Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission really exists.

It’s so surprising that people were too blind to see that it was another Zanu PF cloak meant to make noise and pretend so as to make the suffering citizens believe that something was being done to arrest this county’s destroying disease, corruption. But alas, all was being done to cover up and silence the war-cry on massive looting which had been going on since independence.

Where else has this commission picked up an individual on corruption charges besides Harare mayor Bernard Manyenyeni? Ever since they started their investigations which are being carried out only in the media where Information secretary George Charamba is allowed to warn them, no one was picked up for questioning.

All people are being investigated at their workplaces, but once Manyenyeni was cleared by the High Court through Justice Lavender Makoni, some individuals whose hands are dripping with corruption developed the guts to arrest him.

Now is the time to take Zanu PF head-on. It has gone too far in its endeavour to deceive the masses. There is nothing like an anti-corruption commission existing anywhere in Zimbabwe and let this evil misuse of public funds stop with immediate effect. Civil servants are to receive their June salaries in July, yet funds are being thrown into a grave.

If President Robert Mugabe was serious about corruption and turning around the economy, a lot of his lieutenants were supposed to be behind bars by now.

On top of that, a lot of ministries should have been merged because they were created specifically to reward his corrupt colleagues.

There is high duplication of work because from a single ministry, five ministries are created and that’s why they are always at each other’s throats.

Thirdly, why did Mugabe decide to create additional constituencies from 120 we had since independence to 270, as if we had received additional geographical territory from the sky? This is why “civil servants” chew away more than 80% of the government’s total revenue. Why “civil servants” in quotes? Because there are lots of Zanu PF militia that are on the civil service payroll since June 2008 for killing and torturing Zimbabweans during that dark era.

Let’s confront this gangster regime and its elements who are for the total plunder and destruction of this country, and who are there to disrupt the smooth running of our cities’ affairs so as to make us short-changed on the good services that we are entitled to.

Let’s protect our city fathers physically and never allow anyone to mess around with people’s power. We are sick and tired of these heartless corrupt leaders, whose minds are preoccupied with elections and nothing else.