Commissioner General’s Statement
According to the WCO Integrity Development Guide, the following facilitate corruption:
- Customs employees having monopoly power of clients
- Customs employees having discretionary power over the provision of services
- Level of control or accountability within the Customs organization may be low
- Poor remuneration
- Customs employees often work in remote and largely unsupervised border stations
- Clearance of time of sensitive/perishable commodities create additional opportunity/incentive to circumvent Customs procedures and formalities
- Customs employees enforce a large range of complex legislative regulations – easier/cheaper to pay a bribe than comply
The Authority has not been spared by the above corruption push factors. As a result, the Authority has put in place integrity management mechanisms focusing on eliminating corruption. The Authority is targeting corruption as this vice continue to rear its ugly head on our staff members. We have lost a big number of staff to corruption and this cannot be allowed to continue. Year to date, ZIMRA has placed 36 Officers on suspension pending disciplinary processes. 4 resigned to avoid disciplinary processes on corruption allegation. Integrity management therefore becomes everybody’s business and I call upon everyone to come out of the shell and take part in the fight against corruption.
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CORRUPTION TREND: 2018 Vs 2019
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