Former BBA housemate takes cannabis fight to the c...

Former BBA housemate takes cannabis fight to the courts

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Zim Now Writer

Munyaradzi Chidzonga, a former Big Brother Africa contestant, has taken his fight to the courts following his ouster from a company licensed to deal in cannabis.

Chidzonga, who approached the courts to reverse his and Elizabeth Sekai Bakasa’s removal from the directorship of Ivory Medical argues the move was fraudulent as it was done without the two’s knowledge and that papers were doctored without them knowing.

According to earlier arrangement, Chidzonga was tasked with being in charge of the project while Bakasa was made responsible for the project.

It is alleged that the other directors Nathan Kalumbu and Gilbert Tangwara Chahwanda, a National Aids Council board member went behind the two’s back and removed them from the directorship of the company.

According to the court papers, allegations are also that Kalumbu and Chahwanda went and obtained an amended cannabis licence, ousting Chidzonga and Bakasa, and moving the project from Chiredzi Prison to Kalumbu’s farm in Headlands.

Chidzonga said his alleged resignation from the company is fraudulent as it never happened. This, he said, also means the amended licence is null and void as he is still in charge of the project.

“The 1st and 2nd Respondents (Kalumbu and Chahwanda) in connivance with each other the fraudulent CR14 dated the 20th of May 2020 to the 5th, 6th and 7th Respondent (health minister, secretary for health and the Medicines Control Authority of Zimbabwe) resulting in the issuance of an amended licence dated the 21st of April 2020 which unlawfully removed the 2nd Applicant as the authorised person and myself as the responsible person,” he said.

“Whatever cultivation and production of cannabis being conducted at Kamando Farm in Headlands is illegal in that it is based on an amended licence obtained through fraudulent means by the 1” and 2™ Respondent.

“The process of seeking an amendment of the 3rd respondent’s (Ivory Medical) licence was never a lawful process because it was on the basis of a fraudulent CR14 (now CR6) which deceived the Registrar of Companies that the 2nd applicant and I had resigned from our positions within the 3 Respondent,” argued Chidzonga.