Do not discriminate against ex-convicts

Media outlets, company board members, those in the security sector, and ordinary citizens, are justified in scrutinizing multi-million dollar deals signed by parastatals such as the Zimbabwe Power Company (ZPC) and companies that have ex-convicts like Wicknell Chivayo as directors.

Managing directors Noah Gwariro (ZPC) and Wicknell Chivayo (Intratek ) signing a multi-million dollar deal  Chivayo once served at Chikurubi Maximum Prison.

I understand kuti(that) you want to safeguard mari dzevanhu (the ordinary man's money)

But please, don’t look at all ex-convicts as criminals. Do not paint them with the same brush. It’s a plea. The Zimbabwe Prison and Correctional Services (ZPCS) has not shifted towards rehabilitation and impacting skills to convicts for nought. Ex-cons need your support. Nowhere is it written they do not deserve contracts, business deals etc.

While criminals deserve to be in prison, why discriminate citizens based on whether they have been to jail or not? Why rehabilitate them in the first place? Most of them go to prisons as a result of decisions passed by the magistrates court, one of the lowest courts, which does not set the standards legally, and in some cases would have erred in coming up with certain judgements, thanks to corruption, nepotism pure unprofessionalism, and other reasons.

Were it that it costs $5 to appeal against sentence and conviction, hameno.

A ZPCS deputy commissioner and a senior assistant commissioner with the organization confessed to me after a Health Expo held at Hwahwa Prison some three or so years ago that they were ready to engage and even employ ex-convicts, only that it was not government policy. So they have the guys, whose skills and discipline they are testimony to, working at their personal farms.

Professional coach Joseph Antipas. He served at Connemara Open Prison in Gweru

Would it be relevant if I mentioned it in every Joey Antipas report that he served at Connemara Open Prison? You think the soccer teams won't accept him? No. They know he is a top-notch, professional gaffer.

Do you know that chimwe chidhakwa (some drunkard), or ganja smoker or even murderer will go to heaven for simply helping out an inmate? 

“I was in prison and you came to visit me … I tell you the truth, whatever you did for one of the least of these brothers of mine, you did for me.”
Matthew 25:36, 40