DeBug Zimbabwe

Where were the authorities, Minister Chombo & the city fathers, as people erected structures on council land which today are being declared illegal? If it's a question of safeguarding the environment, the wetlands and so forth; who was billing these people & what is going to happen to that Chinese complex @ the National Sports Stadium? Can Zim trust its own people & its leaders?

Kenya's president has launched a website for people to report incidents of corruption directly to him. Users can upload videos, photos and other documents and can choose from a long drop-down list of government departments to complain about. They can also report corruption to Uhuru Kenyatta by text message.

The campaign group Transparency International says people rarely report bribery and corruption in Kenya because they feel no action will be taken. The East African nation is ranked 139 out of 176 countries on the group's global corruption perceptions index. "The president is committed to clean government and this site advances his intention to act strongly against corruption," the AFP news agency quotes presidential spokesman Manoah Esipisu as saying. The website allows users to remain anonymous should they wish.

A few hours after its launch, Mr Kenyatta's official presidential Twitter account tweeted: "Corruption reporting has started off quite well with a good number of well documented incidences being submitted ."

Another website to tackle corruption in Kenya has already been set up by activist Anthony Ragui. People post their stories on the I Paid a Bribe site about bribery demands from corrupt officials and traffic police - and some also give surprising accounts of their honest encounters. The site gives a running total of all the bribes its contributors have paid since the site began in November 2011. With 3,529 reports of bribery, it currently stands at 125,584,332 Kenyan shillings ($1.4m, £918,500).

Last week, Transparency International's East African Bribery Index revealed in its survey that only seven in 100 Kenyans will report or complain if they encounter bribery. When asked why they did not report corruption, the majority said they knew no action would be taken if they did so. "Of particular interest is that citizens do not seem to trust their governments to respond to the reports on corruption. We need to win citizen confidence if any of our efforts were to succeed," Mr Samuel Kimeu, the executive director of Transparency International in Kenya, said in a statement.

President Kenyatta is the son of Kenya's founding president and one of the richest men in the country. He won elections in March this year pledging to reunite the country following the disputed elections in 2007 and fight corruption—BBC

The following is the portfolio belonging to Bernard John "Bernie" Ebbers, carefully examine the list & read the conclusion;
1. Douglas Lake Canada's biggest ranch - 500,000 acres (2,000 km²) in British Columbia. General partner/president. Acquired in 1998 for about $65 million. Sold on May 30, 2003 by MCI to E. Stanley Kroenke
2. Angelina Plantation - 21,000 acres (85 km²) farm in Monterey, Louisiana. Co-owner with brother, John Ebbers. Acquired in 1998.
3. Joshua Holdings - which combined with Joshua Timberlands and Joshua Timber totals 540,000 acres (2,200 km²) of timberlands in Mississippi, Tennessee, Louisiana and Alabama. Majority owner. Acquired properties in 1999 for about $600 million
4. Pine Ridge Farm - Livestock and crop farm in Mississippi. Owner. LLC formed in 1997

5. Columbus Lumber - High-tech lumber mill in Brookhaven, Mississippi. Majority owner since at least 1996
6. Yachts - BCT Holdings, owner of Intermarine, a yacht building and repair company in Georgia. Primary owner. Intermarine acquired in 1998 for about $14 million
7. Hotels - Nine hotels in Mississippi and Tennessee: Co-owner or owner. Acquired over many years
8. Trucking - KLLM, a trucking firm in Mississippi. Director. Acquired with partner in 2000 for about $30 million. Its present President is K. William Grothe, who served as Senior Vice President of Corporate Development for WorldCom, where he headed the company's merger and acquisition activities. Mr Grothe served as KLLM president until it neared bankruptcy under his leadership.
9. Sports - Mississippi Indoor Sports/Jackson Bandits, a minor league hockey team. 50% owner. Acquired in 1999. Sold stake in September 2003

On July 13, 2005, federal judge Barbara S. Jones, of the U.S. District Court, Southern District of New York in Manhattan, sentenced Ebbers to twenty-five years in a federal prison in Louisiana. Ebbers was allowed to remain free for another year while his appeal was being considered. His conviction, however, was upheld in a federal circuit court on July 28, 2006. On September 6, 2006, the presiding judge ordered him to report to jail on September 26 to start serving his 25-year sentence.
This case simply reminds us that crime does not pay! Lets all be ethical.

The Zimbabwe Anti Corruption Commission [ZACC] is struggling as we speak & the sincerity of our government in addressing the scourge of corruption can only be authenticated by how they fund or attend to this institution. President Robert Mugabe has clearly made his position on corruption clear, but we feel that we now need is action & there can be no better way than capacitating ZACC to do its work.

Cuban leader Raul Castro has taken on corruption and inefficiency since taking office in 2008, warning "we will be relentless."
In 2009, he established the General Comptroller’s Office to fight corruption and strengthen institutions. As part of his crusade against degeneration and complacency, Castro has dismissed ministers and other senior officials, several of whom have been arrested and sentenced to prison terms.
Anything like the above from our own President Robert G. Mugabe will certainly inspire confidence in society...yes we have heard the words, we now want to see things happening.