I wish officials found guilty of corruption would have their hands cut off: Mphoko

In an interview with The Sunday Mail, Vice President Phelekezela Mphoko said that stiff penalties have failed to toip corrupt officials.

Mphoko also said that he wished Zimbabwe would impose Sharia Law on officials found guilty. Said Mphoko:

I wish we were like the Chinese or the Muslims who say if you steal they will cut your hand off; the Chinese would take you to the firing squad straight away. But here people have no feelings for other people.

The solution we keep on talking and have stiff penalties. But stiff penalties also are questionable because if you are taken to prison, especially when there is politics of poverty, everybody is accessible to be bought. Stiff penalty? You take a man to prison and in the prison he lives like a king because he has money.

He further said that the first step to curbing corruption is for people to declare their assets stating that arrest alone is not enough.

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