14 govt directors in land scandal

Fourteen Lands and Rural Resettlement ministry directors and officials allegedly abused Government's non-monetary incentives scheme for civil servants by allocating themselves 37 hectares of commercial land in Borrowdale, Harare.

The directors are also accused of diverting $58 000 in subscription contributions from the Lands Housing Trust to fund servicing of land.

Sources said the subscription contributions were supposed to service a 358 226ha project in Harare South, which would provide accommodation to more than 250 families of civil servants.

Lands Housing Trust chairman  Morris Dakarai dismissed the claims as false and malicious.

However, disgruntled civil servants said senior Government officials were in the process of using their money to build houses.