Editorial Comment: Anti-graft rhetoric leading us nowhere

THE public admission by Prosecutor-General Kumbirai Hodzi that corrupt cartels have captured key government institutions including the police and judiciary demonstrates that as long as the fight against graft is not taken beyond lip service by critical stakeholders, we may as well be fighting a losing battle as a country.

The public looks up to the police and judiciary to stem out corruption, but if these, as well as the National Prosecuting Authority itself are compromised, then we are doomed.

There has been a lot of noise about the growing sophistication of cartels responsible for most of the high-level corruption.

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