Fire corrupt land officers- Zimbabwe MP says

The Member of Parliament for Chegutu West Dextor Nduna has called on th government to fire corrupt land officers instead of transferring them because some of them are incorrigible and willspread the disease where they go.

Nduna had to be restrained by the Deputy Speaker Mabel Chinomona when he went to town about a lands officer he named only as Kunonga.

“Madam Speaker, I would want to say as they conduct their operations and as has been alluded to by the Chairperson of the Committee on Agriculture; there should be eradication and removal and not transference of Land Officers in the districts and in the provinces,” he said referring to the report by Christopher Chitindi.

“These people should be relieved off their duties as we have seen that they have taken advantage of the value of land and the land in their ambits and under their jurisdiction in order to enrich themselves and to indulge in corrupt collusion infested actions and nepotism.

“They have taken corruption to a higher level utilising our God given resources which is land. So, because of that, these Land Officers should be relieved of their duties and may be go to other sectors that are not engaged in land redistribution and land distribution.”

Nduna went on: “Why do I say so? Madam Speaker, some of these Land Officers are also now utilising land redistribution as a political tool in order to utilise it as a spring board for their own political aspirations and power grabbing.

“I am alive to the fact that in my Constituency in Chegutu West, there was a Land Officer by the name of Kunonga who was transferred to Kadoma, but as we speak Madam Speaker, his wife is the one who is heading the Lands Department in Chegutu.

“This man we are talking about has got an appetite for a political position wherever, because he was once in Chegutu wanting a position of an MP but was transferred, but now who has been Christened and installed in Chegutu is his wife. We have not done justice to issues of incest and in issues of corruption. We have just transferred a problem and we have created another one in Chegutu West in particular.”

After a brief interruption, Nduna added: “I am reliably informed that the relocation of one Mr. Kunonga to Kadoma has not done good. He is still parceling and selling land in Kadoma. So, the sooner the Minister sees that we have such corruption infested …

Chinomona intervened and told Nduna: “Please can you take your sit? We cannot keep on speaking about a particular person who is not able to come here and explain on his behalf. Honestly, I think about the staff of the Ministry of Lands, that one you can go to the Ministry so that it is solved.”

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