A CHINHOYI-BASED Zimbabwe Electricity Transmission and
Distribution (ZETDC) senior human resources manager, Christopher Mundembe has
been suspended from duty pending internal disciplinary hearing over a slew of
offences allegedly committed at work.
Earlier this week, Mundembe (46) lost an appeal to quash
the suspension which Chinhoyi magistrate Christine Nyandoro said lacked merit
because there was no basis for the parastatal to incriminate him for the sexual
acts allegedly committed at his workplace.
Mundembe, who is married and not new to controversy,
allegedly molested a student on attachment at the company’s Northern Region
headquarters, Megawatt House in Chinhoyi.
He allegedly called the student to his office, caressed her
breasts and buttocks and later sent her nude photographs.
In his defence, Mundembe, through his lawyer Charles
Matarutse, argued that he had summoned the girl to his office in order to
reprimand her for tarnishing his name by spreading malicious rumours that the
two were in a relationship.
The matter was remanded to May 14, but the parastatal
served Mundembe with a letter of suspension for allegedly bringing the
organisation’s name into disrepute, sexual harassment and absenteeism.
He was stripped of some of the benefits he enjoyed at the
parastatal, including a top-of-the-range Mazda BT50 truck that is now parked at
the company’s premises.
The date for the internal disciplinary hearing is yet to be
set. Newsday
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