“According to the Treasury Department, this means these properties are not paying any rates, water charges, sewer charges nor refuse removal charges to Council. The full price for the properties may not have been paid for these properties because no one can trace it when there are no advice of sale forms issued,” the councillors found.
To make the job of grabbing land easier, the report said, Chombo had deployed pliant officials from his office to council, especially in the housing and planning departments, the report said.
For their troubles, the investigating councillors, led by Mt Pleasant councillor Warship Dumba, were arrested at Chombo’s insistence.
Corruption is costing Harare ratepayers money, but beyond the rhetoric, there is no real move to end the bleeding.
If Chombo could break the rules by simply making a call to council, before presiding over his own applications for stands, Zimbabweans can be forgiven laughing each time Chombo, or any senior government official, rails against graft.- The Source
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