Deputy Speaker and hon members, one of the central pillars of ethical governance is that public servants should not have a conflict of interest between their daily duties and their private business interests. This principle is well established throughout the world because of the obvious danger that such conflicts of interests will lead to collusion, tender fraud and other forms of corruption.
This form of corruption also has an inevitable further negative consequence, because in most such cases the service or product that is delivered to or on behalf of the Public Service is usually of inferior quality.
In our country we have seen widespread Public Service inefficiency and a growing resentment at ground level about this, which translate into violent community protests.
The UDM urges government to act swiftly to discipline, and where necessary, prosecute, those public servants who are fingered in the Auditor-General's report. We also urge the ruling party to live up to its often-repeated ... [Time expired.]