it happening in other countries and can be a success if the police are serious about fighting corruption.
Mativure
It is the apathy of citizens like you that make it less possible. Remember all the good man needs to is do nothing and evil will triumph.
macdchip
l once saw a police bmw car parked at a very strange place with five officers in it. Some were opening and flapping receipt books whilst others were counting money, whouldnt this be done a a police station?
The story is that is police where using technology, a police can be lively be tracked with its internal audio and video feeding back to the command and control centre. But hey, who would what such technology which will see there dairly take home dwindle.
l support you on this one.
Tapiwa ✔
There is another proverb: A fish rots from the head down. There is no hope for getting rid of corruption if it is condoned (or even encouraged) from the top. If photographing an officer is not currently a crime, it soon will be. If the Public Order and Security Act doesn’t have a relevant subsection, would-be ‘do-gooders’ can try espionage charges for size.
Carry on citizen, there is nothing to see here.
tinm@n
As long as its an attempt, its a good thing. Corruption is a very difficult culture to fight once it has allowed its way in. Even worse when poverty is rife…We resiliently reject,report(for those who do) and criticise the behaviour. Long road. Just wondering how effective ipaidabribe has been so far.
I’m not sure though whether your question refers to what has been done with the bribes collected so far or how effective IPAB has been in curbing corruption so I will attempt to answer both. Lets start with the former. I visited ZIMRA (http://www.twitter.com/Zimra_11) asking if they can make it easy for members of the public report corrupt ZIMRA officers directly to ZIMRA after I recieved a report accusing ZIMRA officials of inflating prices (http://ipaidabribe.org.zw/index.php/reports/view/72). ZIMRA was very helpful and went on to share on facebook and twitter than such officers can be reported to the station manager or by sending an email to pr@zimra.co.zw. This the example of what we intend to use those report for – aproaching government (& public offices), showing them the gaps in their systems & processes, showing them the opportunities those gaps provide for corruption and lobbying for changes.
And about the later, I don’t believe that http://www.ipaidabribe.org.zw has directly caused a significant curb in the corruption going around in Zimbabwe. Although I strongly believe it will make some difference I doubt that alone we can make a signifcantly large difference. But to understand why we shall continue to push it, you will have to first understand the parable of the elephant and the hummingbird:
It goes; One day an elephant saw a hummingbird lying on its back with its tiny feet up in the air.
“What are you doing?” asked the elephant.
The hummingbird replied, “I heard that the sky might fall today, and so I am ready to help hold it up, should it fall.”
The elephant laughed cruelly. “Do you really think,” he said, “that those tiny feet could help hold up the sky?”
The hummingbird kept his feet up in the air, intent on his purpose as he replied, “Not alone. But each must do what he can. And this is what I can do.”
Mativure
Keep up the good work man
Tawanda Kembo
Thanks
Muzivi
I like the etolling idea. All those ZIMRA officials will be done.
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too much of an idealist
it happening in other countries and can be a success if the police are serious about fighting corruption.
It is the apathy of citizens like you that make it less possible. Remember all the good man needs to is do nothing and evil will triumph.
l once saw a police bmw car parked at a very strange place with five officers in it. Some were opening and flapping receipt books whilst others were counting money, whouldnt this be done a a police station?
The story is that is police where using technology, a police can be lively be tracked with its internal audio and video feeding back to the command and control centre. But hey, who would what such technology which will see there dairly take home dwindle.
l support you on this one.
There is another proverb: A fish rots from the head down. There is no hope for getting rid of corruption if it is condoned (or even encouraged) from the top. If photographing an officer is not currently a crime, it soon will be. If the Public Order and Security Act doesn’t have a relevant subsection, would-be ‘do-gooders’ can try espionage charges for size.
Carry on citizen, there is nothing to see here.
As long as its an attempt, its a good thing. Corruption is a very difficult culture to fight once it has allowed its way in. Even worse when poverty is rife…We resiliently reject,report(for those who do) and criticise the behaviour. Long road. Just wondering how effective ipaidabribe has been so far.
Hi @99cc7ce3550f7e6b3e22161a5bcdb561:disqus,
I guess I am the best person to answer the question about how effective http://www.ipaidabribe.org.zw has been.
I’m not sure though whether your question refers to what has been done with the bribes collected so far or how effective IPAB has been in curbing corruption so I will attempt to answer both. Lets start with the former. I visited ZIMRA (http://www.twitter.com/Zimra_11) asking if they can make it easy for members of the public report corrupt ZIMRA officers directly to ZIMRA after I recieved a report accusing ZIMRA officials of inflating prices (http://ipaidabribe.org.zw/index.php/reports/view/72). ZIMRA was very helpful and went on to share on facebook and twitter than such officers can be reported to the station manager or by sending an email to pr@zimra.co.zw. This the example of what we intend to use those report for – aproaching government (& public offices), showing them the gaps in their systems & processes, showing them the opportunities those gaps provide for corruption and lobbying for changes.
And about the later, I don’t believe that http://www.ipaidabribe.org.zw has directly caused a significant curb in the corruption going around in Zimbabwe. Although I strongly believe it will make some difference I doubt that alone we can make a signifcantly large difference. But to understand why we shall continue to push it, you will have to first understand the parable of the elephant and the hummingbird:
It goes; One day an elephant saw a hummingbird lying on its back with its tiny feet up in the air.
“What are you doing?” asked the elephant.
The hummingbird replied, “I heard that the sky might fall today, and so I am ready to help hold it up, should it fall.”
The elephant laughed cruelly. “Do you really think,” he said, “that those tiny feet could help hold up the sky?”
The hummingbird kept his feet up in the air, intent on his purpose as he replied, “Not alone. But each must do what he can. And this is what I can do.”
Keep up the good work man
Thanks
I like the etolling idea. All those ZIMRA officials will be done.