Some businessmen in Mazowe District have called on the Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission (ZACC) to investigate illegal land allocations and corruption in business centres in Chiweshe.
Ex-State House boss loses freedom bid
Chief Court Reporter
FORMER principal director of State Residences, Douglas Tapfuma, has lost a High Court appeal to quash both conviction and a four-year imprisonment term imposed on him for criminal abuse of office.
Tapfuma was in July last year jailed effective four years and had six vehicles forfeited to the State following his conviction on three charges of criminal abuse of office.
Aggrieved with the trial court’s decision, Tapfuma took the matter up to the High Court on appeal.
But sitting as an appellant court, two judges of the High Court Justice Benjamin Chikowero and Justice Pisirayi Kwenda, upheld both the conviction and sentence.
By Tonderai Saharo
PARENTS and guardians with pupils attending Catholic-run Gokomere High and Primary schools, have approached the Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission (ZACC) demanding an audit of the learning centres’ finances while complaining standards were “nose-diving”.
The two Masvingo-based schools are some of the best performing learning centres in Zimbabwe.
The petition was addressed to the ZACC executive secretary Sukai Tongogara and copied to the Auditor General’s Office, the President’s Office, Police Commissioner-General Godwin Matanga, and the Zimbabwe Catholic Bishop’s Conference.
The parents are requesting an audit of the institution’s financials suspecting misappropriation of funds by the schools’ authorities.
By James Muonwa, Mashonaland West Correspondent
A FREEDOM bid by three Vehicle Inspectorate Department (VID) inspectors flopped this Tuesday after a Karoi magistrate denied them bail.
The trio was arrested last week at the VID Karoi depot by the Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission (ZAAC) officers for allegedly issuing a total of 26 provisional certificates to candidates who had failed the mandatory written examinations.
The three are; Musa Enesi, who allegedly issued eight provisional certificates, Obvious Vheremu who issued 12 and Alois Togarepi who issued six.
In passing his bail ruling, Magistrate Godswill Mavenge said criminal abuse of duty was a serious offence, before advising the VID staffers to apply for bail at the High Court.
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