The school head, Mr Litmus Moyo, and an unnamed school
driver have been implicated in the alleged scam after two of the missing doors
were found installed at the driver’s house. He claimed that he was given the
doors by Mr Moyo.
Bulawayo provincial police spokesperson Inspector Abednico
Ncube confirmed that they were investigating circumstances surrounding the
alleged theft of the doors but to date no arrests had been made. “Our officers
are investigating that matter after a report was made but no arrests have been
made so far,” said Insp Ncube.
Contacted for comment, the SDC chairperson, Mr Sign Bhebhe
confirmed that they had reported the matter to the police after Mr Moyo had
failed to give a substantive explanation on the whereabouts of the missing
doors. “As the SDC we got a request from the school to replace the doors, we
naturally approached parents who gave us a go ahead, we then went ahead to
replace 32 doors at the school. However, we later got a tip off that the driver
had taken some of the old doors to his house and for sure when we went there,
we identified two of the old doors that had been installed at his house.
“When we asked him, he implicated the school head who
initially neither denied or confirmed this assertion, we then went back to the
school where we did an inventory on the old doors, where we found that only 16
were left, it is then that the school head professed ignorance on the
whereabouts of the doors, which is why we had to report the issue to the
police,” said Mr Bhebhe.
He said their worry was that school property could not just
go missing when there were people meant to ensure its safety.
“Our thinking was that we were going to dispose of these
doors and ensure that the funds raised are channeled towards the development of
the school, not just for one person to benefit,” said the SDC chairperson.
Sunday News
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