#NehandaCitizenReports: Please investigate corruption at Pamushana Mission

I am writing this letter to you, EDITOR as concerned residents of Pamushana Mission wishing to inform you the nation of the corruption taking place at this school which is situated in Bikita District and spearheaded by the head Johnson Madhuku.

We would like to single out the following, the concerned authorities to investigate;

1. A church Audit of 2010 revealed that he bought 88 beasts at $500 each through his agent at Chivaka. The then school driver Mr Charles Rwatiringa, a key witness to this scandal was killed in a mysterious car accident. This case was reported at Bikita Police Station and nothing was done .We want to believe the church’s Chief Internal Auditor, who has since resigned, played a major role in making the church not deal with this corrupt school head.

2. The following teachers are used by Madhuku because of their corrupt tendences ; > > i) MR Hassan Mutidzaniswa, a wood work teacher, who is making furniture with school wood bought for student’s practicals .This furniture is sold at Madhuku’s Shop at Mandadzaka Bussiness Center.

> > ii) The following teacher’s Mr Zororo Chokera and Brighton Mdzvimbo sexually abused school girls and were protected by Madhuku. One of the girls who was sexually abused is a relative of Mr Makamba a former teacher at Pamushana who had to come back from South Africa to attend to this abuse case.

> > iii) Mr Juro, a brother to the church’s General Secretary, Rev Charles Juro, is always in charge with the school bus whenever it ferries students to and from Harare during opening and closing days, always misuses bus fare paid by students converting it to his own use. The church audits always reveals this but Madhuku protects him.

> > 3. Both ‘O’ and ‘A’ level results are not the true reflection of the schools perfomance since all formal – non -perfoming students are registered as informal students thus pushing the pass rate up. We want to inform the nation that we do not register non -formal students at this school.

> > 4. Mr Madhuku is using his brother’s tractor to syphone a lot of school funds by charging exorbitant charges.

> > 5.Recently a ten-hole blair toilet was built at the boy’s Hostel and the builder was paid a cool $3000-00. If building blair toilets is so expensive then the primary schools would use bushes.

> > 6. We have over 60 boarding students who are not paying school fees as they are recruited to play soccer and netball in a bid to make a name for himself.

> > 7. A Builder who was contracted to build a school library but as we write, the school head influenced the SDC to give the builder a new contract of $16000 as covering construction of the walls only but the initial $16000 included labour for the roof. Now a new contractor was contracted to put-up the roof. This is the same builder who built the blair toilet in question. We feel the school head is using this builder to steal money from the school since they are closely related.

> > 8.Since 2009 when the nation started using the USD, some schools like Chibi, Zimuto etc put-up significant new structures, but nothing of significant is happening at Pamushana. There is a serious accommodation shortage of both teaching and non -teaching members of staff even the school students.

> > 9. The roofing of the ‘A Level’ hostel done by Red River company whose roof is leaking thus the whole ceiling is down. A lot of school funds were used to pay Lawyers and the arbitrator, to date ,nothing was done.

> > We pray to the responsible authorities to please investigate these issues since corruption is rampant at this institution affecting its growth . > > CONTACT the Head at 077416744 or the church’s office > > Concerned Residents. >