Source: Govt reduces police roadblocks – DailyNews Live
STAFF WRITER 3 October 2017
HARARE – Zimbabwe has reduced the number of roadblocks on highways, Home
Affairs deputy minister Obedingwa Mguni has told the Senate.
“As policy makers, we sat down together with the police and we established
legislation that there should be four roadblocks per province. We are
talking about roadblocks with each and every equipment and material for a
roadblock like drums, boom gates and so forth.
“Concerning this issue, police have come back to us and told us that they
will have spot checks depending on what happens in particular places. I
have moved around many places in order to verify this. When I initially
used the Harare-Masvingo road, there were 17 roadblocks at the time this
legislation for four roadblocks was set up.
“As I used that same road recently, I found seven. However, I emphasised
to them that seven roadblocks are still not within the number that is
expected because there is need for facilitation of tourism as well as jobs
to be done – ease of doing business,” he said.
COMMENTS
There has been a surge of road blocks in the last week and the Deputy Minister is hopelessly out of touch!!! An officer was saying today at Norton that even they are ashamed of the frequency of these menacing road blocks?
I have travelled far and wide, i.e in Africa, Europe and Asia and this nonsense of roadblocks dotted across the country is killing our tourist industry. What is $14 Million in a Country Budget?? Our tourist industry is worth Billions and it is being stifled by this nonsensical approach to primitive fund-raising.
This documemt says a lot about how we are lagging behind the world in tourism-derived income:
https://www.wttc.org/-/media/files/reports/economic-impact-research/countries-2017/zimbabwe2017.pdf
We cannoy destroy a multi-billion industry so that the ZRP can earn a few million $$$$. Zimbabwe deserves more than this!
Our toursit indutry is contributing far less to our GDP than it is capable of compared to our neighbours, i.e Zambia, Botswana, South Africa etc and this has nothing to do with phantom Sanctions.
I would rather go to Cape Town to spend my hard-earned ££$$ than go to a country where I get stopped every few kilometres by dim-wit idiots masquarading as police officers.