FORMER MDC-T Member of Parliament for Hwange Central Mr
Brian Tshuma has been taken to court by his erstwhile campaign manager for
failing to pay him for services rendered during the 2008 and 2013 elections.
Mr Fednard Ncube, through his lawyers Mashindi and
Associates, filed summons at the Bulawayo High Court citing the former MP, his
sister Pretty Tshuma and their mother Ms Chamatama Shoko, as defendants.
Mr Ncube is accusing the former legislator of failing to
give him a car, an Isuzu twin cab KB250, which he had offered as payment for
managing his election campaigns.
He said he was engaged in 2007 as a campaign manager by Mr
Tshuma for the 2008 and 2013 harmonised elections and was promised US$2 000.
“After securing a parliamentary seat, the first defendant
(Mr Tshuma) failed to pay as per his undertaking. I worked again as his
campaign manager in the 2013 elections and once again he promised me US$2 000,
but nothing was paid despite the first defendant having retained his seat,”
said Mr Ncube.
He said in 2016, Mr Tshuma then promised to give him a car
in recognition of his services as a full and final payment of all his dues.
Mr Ncube said he took possession of the car, but Mr Tshuma
refused to give him the vehicle registration book.
He said he was involved in an accident while driving the
car and he took it to Minestores Garage for repairs.
Mr Ncube said when he went to the garage to check the
vehicle, he discovered that Ms Shoko and her daughter had collected it acting
on the orders of Mr Tshuma.
Mr Ncube said when he opened a criminal charge against the
defendants, prosecution was denied on the basis that he did not have the car’s
registration book. He said he therefore wants the court to order the defendants
to return the car and surrender its registration book to
him.
Mr Ncube also wants the court to order the deputy sheriff
of the High Court to be authorised to sign all necessary papers to register the
car under his name. “The defendants have despite numerous demands refused to
return the car. Wherefore I pray for an order directing the defendants to
deliver the car and its registration book within four days of the order,” he
said. Chronicle
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