Editorial Comment: Corruption undermining ED’s Second Republic

ALTHOUGH President Emmerson Mnangagwa is on record saying corruption, a socio-economic cancer that has continued to eat into the country’s moral fabric, will not be tolerated in his “Second Republic” after it had become unforgivably widespread under former President Robert Mugabe, what is happening on the ground unfortunately points to a different trajectory.

Granted Mnangagwa’s decision to relieve Joram Gumbo of his post as Energy minister against a backdrop of widespread fuel shortages and crippling power cuts across the country was a welcome development.

But retaining him in government under a new post stinks to high heaven.

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