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Bulawayo residents march against corruption
Bulawayo Progressive
Residents Association (BPRA)
August 06, 2012
This weekend
BPRA took part in celebrations to launch the anti corruption campaign
by Transparency
International Zimbabwe (TIZ) in Bulawayo held under the Theme
"Tshiya ubugwelegwele, thuthukisa uBulawayo" (Stop corruption,
develop Bulawayo). The event was attended by more than 200 residents
from Bulawayo's 29 wards and included a road show and a march
against corruption around the city center.
Bulawayo residents
were encouraged to work closely with TIZ and other organisations
to fight corruption. Residents highlighted that there is a lot of
abuse of state resources which resulted in poor services being rendered
to residents as their taxes were being misdirected by corrupt officials.
They also raised concerns about the inconvenience of water and power
cuts and the general deteriorating service delivery in the city
pointing to the fact that if corruption was curbed a lot of problems
in these areas would be solved.
Reverend Ray
Motsi of Churches in Bulawayo and Grace to Heal bemoaned the fact
that corruption was now even affecting the national economy. He
said it is time that people started to play an active role in trying
to stop corruption in the country. Residents lamented the fact that
the custodians of peace and security, the police, had become so
involved in corruption that they felt there were now lesser channels
to use to fight this cancer if the police were also involved.
Mzilikazi residents
have joined the wider calls for a more transparent system of administration
for the Harmonised Social Cash Transfer (HSCT) programme arguing
that the poor information dissemination on the programme was now
causing many of them to lose out on its benefits. The sentiments
were expressed at a consultative meeting held at Macdonald hall
in Mzilikazi ward 8 were BPRA gathered residents to talk about the
benefits and challenges of the project so far in the pilot areas.
Visit the Bulawayo
Progressive Residents Association fact
sheet
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