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

 

Zim Now Writer

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.

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.