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Gvt To Retrench Some Of Its 40 000 Soldiers, & 55 000 Police

Posted on December 18, 2015 by newzimbabwevision

The government could soon retrench thousands of soldiers and police officers, as authorities embark on a staff audit of the security sector as part of efforts to reduce the civil service’s unsustainable wage bill. Finance minister Patrick Chinamasa told Parliament on Wednesday the rationalisation exercise was now being extended to the army barracks and police stations to ascertain their numbers. “We took a decision at Cabinet to do the audit and I think the only…

1,000 cops fired over graft, says Home Affairs deputy minister ‘Ziyambi Ziyambi’

Posted on June 28, 2015 by newzimbabwevision

MORE than a thousand police officers have been expelled from the country’s law enforcement agency in the past three years for corruption related offences, absenteeism and a host of other misdemeanours, a senior government official has revealed. Addressing backbenchers in parliament last week, Home Affairs deputy minister Ziyambi Ziyambi said at least 1,161 cops were dislodged from the ZRP since 2012. The Zanu PF Mashonaland West interim chair had been asked by Southerton MP Gift…