City fights off trio’s compensation bid
Harare City Council has rebuffed compensation demands made by three councillors who were recently cleared of charges of flouting tender procedures in awarding a $13,8 million sewer deal to a local company.
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Harare City Council has rebuffed compensation demands made by three councillors who were recently cleared of charges of flouting tender procedures in awarding a $13,8 million sewer deal to a local company.
Harare councillor Wilton Janjazi is demanding that the city reimburse him more than $12 000 in legal fees he accrued when he was fighting fraud accusations he has since been cleared of.
A tribunal set up to probe three suspended Harare councillors on allegations of cheating in a $31 million tender has dismissed the trio’s objection to the hearing and exception to the charges. Councillors Urayayi Mangwiro, Paula Macharangwanda and Wilton Janjazi are facing misconduct charges of cheating in a tender.
The trial of former Harare Town Clerk Tendai Mahachi, who together with seven others is accused of abusing office through awarding $32 million tenders to companies that did not participate in the bidding process, has kicked off before the High Court.
The MDC has condemned the surge of violence in Harare which saw its car and properties belonging to its senior members being torched in suspected cases of arson by people believed to be from its main rival Zanu PF.
Former Harare City Council (HCC) treasurer Wilton Janjazi and four other ex-procurement board members were dragged to court yesterday on allegations of abuse of office relating to $32 million worth of tenders that were reportedly awarded to unregistered companies.
By Helen Kadirire Residents’ pressure group, the Combined Harare Residents Association (Chra), has called upon councillors to stand by vendors who are indiscriminately harassed by municipal police even though they are the ones who voted them into office. Speaking at a Vendors Initiative for Social and Economic Transformation (Viset), Chra chief executive officer Mfundi Mlilo […]