While giving oral evidence before the Parliamentary Portfolio Committee on Transport and Infrastructural Development on Monday, Home Affairs Deputy Minister Obedingwa Mguni revealed that he had received requests from MPs and community leaders to have their children seconded to the Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP)’s traffic section.
Said Mguni:
I have received more than four requests from Members of Parliament and they are asking me to say ‘my son or my daughter is in the police force, he wants to be transferred to the traffic.’ I have told Levy Sibanda, who is Deputy Commissioner-General for Human Resources that here are the names of daughters and sons of MPs who want to be transferred to traffic. Can you interview them why they want to be transferred to traffic, what is the reason? The reason has been ‘my wife is far from me,’ ‘I see Bulawayo traffic is near, where there is space can I be accommodated,’ There are a lot of even community leaders who want their sons to go and work in traffic. You wonder why, what is the reason?
Mguni urged legislators and community leaders not to encourage their children to join ZRP’s traffic section because they want to make money from bribes.
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