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Spotlight on urban land looting
14 Feb 2018 at 00:36hrs | Views
THE six-member commission appointed by President Emmerson Mnangagwa to investigate the corrupt sale of land in urban areas across the country will begin hearings next week, it has been learnt.
In a statement, secretary to the commission Virginia Mabiza said the process would take a year.
"Pursuant to the swearing-in of the Commission of Inquiry, the inaugural meeting of the Commission of Inquiry held on Thursday February 8, 2018 resolved that the commission officially starts hearings from February 19, 2018," she said.
Senior Zanu-PF leaders and councillors, including opposition members, have been implicated in massive backhand land sales and allocations prejudicing the State of millions in possible revenue.
Most of the land was parcelled out ostensibly as part of the chaotic and often violent land reform programme.
Mnangagwa appointed the commission in terms of Statutory Instrument 11 of 2018, an amendment of Statutory Instrument 102 of 2017, establishing a commission of Inquiry into the sale of State land in and around urban areas since 2005.
The commission was sworn in on February 1.
Mabiza added: "The Commission of Inquiry will be held for a period of 12 months from the date of swearing-in of the commissioners and shall, among other functions, conduct visitations, conduct hearings after summoning witnesses and record proceedings and minute testimonies where necessary. Accordingly, the commission kindly requests maximum possible co-operation from the Zimbabwean public and institutions during the period which the commission will be undertaking its business".
Ex-President Robert Mugabe a few years ago accused former Local Government minister Saviour Kasukuwere of corruptly parcelling out land to televangelist and Prophetic Healing and Deliverance Ministries front-man Walter Magaya in a shady $100 000 deal.
In a statement, secretary to the commission Virginia Mabiza said the process would take a year.
"Pursuant to the swearing-in of the Commission of Inquiry, the inaugural meeting of the Commission of Inquiry held on Thursday February 8, 2018 resolved that the commission officially starts hearings from February 19, 2018," she said.
Senior Zanu-PF leaders and councillors, including opposition members, have been implicated in massive backhand land sales and allocations prejudicing the State of millions in possible revenue.
Most of the land was parcelled out ostensibly as part of the chaotic and often violent land reform programme.
Mnangagwa appointed the commission in terms of Statutory Instrument 11 of 2018, an amendment of Statutory Instrument 102 of 2017, establishing a commission of Inquiry into the sale of State land in and around urban areas since 2005.
The commission was sworn in on February 1.
Mabiza added: "The Commission of Inquiry will be held for a period of 12 months from the date of swearing-in of the commissioners and shall, among other functions, conduct visitations, conduct hearings after summoning witnesses and record proceedings and minute testimonies where necessary. Accordingly, the commission kindly requests maximum possible co-operation from the Zimbabwean public and institutions during the period which the commission will be undertaking its business".
Ex-President Robert Mugabe a few years ago accused former Local Government minister Saviour Kasukuwere of corruptly parcelling out land to televangelist and Prophetic Healing and Deliverance Ministries front-man Walter Magaya in a shady $100 000 deal.
Source - newsday
