The four, who
include Ardon Chivandire, an accountant in the Harare Metropolitan Provincial
Affairs and Devolution Office, his wife Priscilla Mapiki, daughter Charmaine
Chivandire and his uncle, Ishmael Ndiurayei, appeared in court at the weekend.
ZEC is
currently preparing for Wednesday’s harmonised elections and requires a
significant number of individuals to assist with the election processes.
Ardon, having
been seconded to ZEC, used his knowledge of procedures to include his family
members in the voter education programme.
However, their
scam was discovered last month when ZEC changed its payment system from cash to
salary through the Salary Services Bureau, and his wife, daughter and uncle
were exposed as not government employees.
Realising that
his family would be flushed out by the payment system, Ardon tried in vain to
persuade Sheila Nyabadza, a ZEC human resource officer, to remove them from the
schedule of payments.
ZEC engaged the
Harare Metropolitan Provincial Affairs and Devolution office, and it was found
that Ardon’s wife, daughter and uncle weren’t civil servants, and therefore
couldn’t be election officers, leading to their arrest. H Metro
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