Chitungwiza Municipality land technician arrested for illegal parceling out of state land

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Chitungwiza Municipality Land Survey Technician, Henry Kandawasvika, has been arrested for criminal abuse of office and is assisting the Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission with investigations.

His accomplice, former town planner Rosemary Maridza is also being sought in connection with the case.

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Kandawasvika is accused of having allegedly created a site plan for 30 commercial stands at Makoni Business Centre in 2019.

“Henry Kandawasvika, aged 49 of 13791 Madokero, Harare, is employed by the Municipality of Chitungwiza as a Land Survey Technician since 2011.

“Sometime in 2019, Rosemary Maridza the then Town Planner at Chitungwiza Municipality (who is still at large) unprocedurally created a site plan for 30 commercial stands numbered from 60189 to 60218 in Unit G, Makoni Business Centre, Chitungwiza,” Zacc said in a statement.

The land, according to the anti-corruption body, was reserved for an open space on the Chitungwiza Municipality layout plan and is State land requiring Ministerial authority for a change of reservation as provided for in Section 26 (3) of the Regional, Town and Country Planning Act.

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