Sources inside Town House told The Sunday Mail the ghost
workers were recruited as a way of rewarding them after campaigning for the
opposition party ahead of the 2018 harmonised elections.
Around 400 were deployed to the municipal police department
while the remainder were posted to the department of water and other divisions.
It has been learnt that the workers were needlessly
recruited by council in 2020 in contravention of council’s prescribed
recruitment procedures.
“The over-employment was done to award opposition political
activists as well as position them to key council positions in order to
ring-fence their corrupt system, which was done through recruitments early in
the year 2020,” said one source who refused to be identified.
Another source from council’s legal division said a senior
City of Harare director (name supplied) approved the recruitment.
“He has messed up on council procedures and has used
suspended town clerk, Hosiah Chisango, to block an investigation into
over-recruitment,” said the source.
It is further claimed the director stopped an investigation
which sought to establish why ghost workers remained on council’s payroll for a
year.
“If he is not afraid, why is he engaging and paying certain
councillors to block the coming back of certain employees with labour
judgements in their favour?”
HCC spokesperson Mr Michael Chideme said an audit conducted
last week cleared the director and the city of any wrongdoing. Sunday Mail
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