Lack of Zimbabwe witness protection law hampers fight against corruption

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Lack of Zimbabwe witness protection law hampers fight against corruption - Transparency International has said Zimbabwe is losing billions of dollars a year to corruption

of government workers initiated during former president Robert Mugabe’s tenure have failed to stymie the rot.posted by incarcerated Citizens Coalition for Change legislator Job Sikhala in 2020.

“Insiders who act with integrity and seek to expose rot, illegality, unethical conduct, abuses and corruption can only grow in number and assist in clawing back on corruption if there are sufficient safeguards in institutions and the state to guarantee their safety,” Lewanika said. “The problem we have is that the politically connected are arrested for optics and there is so much corruption in the fight against corruption that officials are compromised,” Majoni said.

to serve in Zanu-PF’s influential central committee, a move critics say points to lack of political will to firmly deal with party heavyweights accused of corruption.The ZACC’s Moyo has lamented what she said were the routine “catch and release” cases fuelled by “witnesses shunning coming to court because they were scared”. the low prosecution rate of high-profile cases was mainly a result of the intimidation of witnesses and the absence of legislation to protect them.

One of the recurring submissions by investigating officers in opposing bail applications is that accused people will intimidate witnesses, as noted by the ZACC’s Moyo.

 

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