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Hunger: No excuse for corruption
Movement for Democratic Change (MDC)
May 21, 2012

The MDC believes in creating a nation where the rule of law is respected and upheld by all citizens, including law enforcement agents without any excuse.

It is regrettable that Home Affairs ministry officials can try to excuse corrupt officers intimating that it is because they are hungry that they engage in corrupt activities.

The excuse is totally unacceptable as the very people they will be fleecing money from are also reeling under the same economic hardships.

A police officer should not throw away his social standing and integrity, instead he or she should be a woman or man of unquestionable character who can be relied upon by the public. As it is the police officers have lost their social standing and are best known for being "toll gates"

The fact that police officers like everyone else need decent salaries is a given and needs urgent attention. Zanu PF should stop looting money being made in diamond mining which money should be used to pay civil servants including the police.

Zanu PF virtually destroyed the economy and the coming into government of the MDC has seen marked improvement.

Every Zimbabwean has adopted a 'survival of the fittest' approach to life and police officers should not assume that they are the only ones reeling under poverty brought about by ridiculous Zanu PF policies.

While the MDC has been working tirelessly and diligently to ensure improvement of peoples' livelihoods and the expansion of the national cake, Zanu PF policies like indigenisation have had adverse effects on investment which in turn has affected the said livelihoods.

Let the people of Zimbabwe defend their integrity, the police included, by fighting corrupt tendencies.

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