This comes as Government, through the Ministry of Local
Government and Public Works has ordered council employees with pending court
cases not to report for duty until they are cleared. As a result, many top
council officials who have been fingered in corruption are not reporting for
duty.
However, that has not been the case with Mr Tongoona
prompting the workers under the Local Authorities Progressive Workers Union of
Zimbabwe (LAPWUZ) to demand answers from the City fathers. In a letter to HCC
chamber secretary Mr Warren Chiwawa the worker, through LAPWUZ chairperson Mr
Mavuda said they will not submit themselves to Mr Tongoona.
“This letter serves to inform you that we as LAPWUZ will
not subject our members to any investigation or disciplinary hearing until and
unless Mr. C. Tongoona is dealt with in terms of the full council resolutions
which stated that any council employee who has a pending case in the courts,
especially those connected to the housing and land scandal must not be allowed
at their workplaces,” read the letter from the union’s chairperson Maxwell
Mavuda.
In January this year Mr Tongoona was arrested on criminal
abuse of office charges after he illegally authorised the development of a
housing stand in Marlborough without a certificate of compliance.
In the latest letter, the workers are also taking the city
fathers to task for allowing Mr Tongoona to work when he has not yet been
cleared by the country’s courts. Mr Tongoona is also under the spotlight after
he illegally took possession of a gun that belongs to the local authority which
was later used by his son to commit a public offence. Herald
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