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Bulawayo Agenda crisis, MDC-T officials fingered
27 Jul 2011 at 06:39hrs | Views
A Blogspot penned by a Busani Ncube is alleging that there is a co-operate culture of corruption, intimidation and nepotism at Bulawayo Agenda which has resulted in the civic society outfit being bankrupt and facing collapse after it emerged that it owes service providers and a local hotel thousands of United States Dollars.
The scam has since sucked in top government and MDC-T officials as allegations against them are that they used in their position to convert large sums of donor funds meant for community projects for their own use and employed their friends and relatives to cover up his scandal.
Further, officials are accused of taking the civic society group's furniture that include chairs, desks, television sets and a generator to their house and to the MDC-T offices.
The blogspot claims that according to an informant's document at hand, Anastasia Moyo and Tjitabona Ncube the director and finance officer respectively, who are currently facing charges of corruption and mismanagement of funds, are being "victimized" for exposing gross corruption activities at the NGO housed on the sixth floor of Pioneer House on Fife Street and Eighth Avenue in Bulawayo.
There has been an outcry from some Bulawayo activists and politicians about the operations of Bulawayo Agenda and the Bulawayo Progressive Residents Association.
The government and MDC-T officials accused by the blogspot have since denied all the charges arguing that the two civic society outfits are just doing their work of providing a platform for debate and dialogue as a formula for nation building and conflict resolution, nothing else.
It is alleged that Bulawayo Agenda owes Tel-One, Zesa, and Knight Frank and Rainbow hotel and has ironically been at the fore-front of organizing demonstrations against these and other service providers, a move which analysts have seen as a ploy to divert attention from its own defaults.
The scam has since sucked in top government and MDC-T officials as allegations against them are that they used in their position to convert large sums of donor funds meant for community projects for their own use and employed their friends and relatives to cover up his scandal.
Further, officials are accused of taking the civic society group's furniture that include chairs, desks, television sets and a generator to their house and to the MDC-T offices.
The blogspot claims that according to an informant's document at hand, Anastasia Moyo and Tjitabona Ncube the director and finance officer respectively, who are currently facing charges of corruption and mismanagement of funds, are being "victimized" for exposing gross corruption activities at the NGO housed on the sixth floor of Pioneer House on Fife Street and Eighth Avenue in Bulawayo.
There has been an outcry from some Bulawayo activists and politicians about the operations of Bulawayo Agenda and the Bulawayo Progressive Residents Association.
The government and MDC-T officials accused by the blogspot have since denied all the charges arguing that the two civic society outfits are just doing their work of providing a platform for debate and dialogue as a formula for nation building and conflict resolution, nothing else.
It is alleged that Bulawayo Agenda owes Tel-One, Zesa, and Knight Frank and Rainbow hotel and has ironically been at the fore-front of organizing demonstrations against these and other service providers, a move which analysts have seen as a ploy to divert attention from its own defaults.
Source - zimscribes.blogspot.com
