adminInnocent Ruwende Senior Reporter
Harare City directors will learn of their fate today when council holds a special meeting which is expected to send them packing using the findings of a tribunal that was necessitated by a Government audit.
The report implicates the senior employees in financial irregularities. Although councillors were summoned to attend the meeting, some disgruntled councillors were lobbying for the meeting to be cancelled as they do not agree with its intentions.
Acting town clerk Mrs Josephine Ncube, short-listed town clerk candidate and human capital director Dr Cainos Chingombe, finance director Mr Tendai Kwenda and health services director Dr Prosper Chonzi are facing the chop.
Councillors are divided on who should be fired because suspending all those who received salaries that were over and above what was stipulated by Government will cripple operations while some had also developed relations with the officials.
The alleged defiance was done under the leadership of Dr Tendai Mahachi, who has since left council, and the city officials say the salaries were allegedly approved by the Kurasha Commission.
Mayor Bernard Manyenyeni yesterday, confirmed that the meeting was scheduled for today. Sources at Town House yesterday said although they expect Clr Manyenyeni to influence councillors to come to the meeting, it was not a walk in the park.
“There is a clique of councillors who are against the meeting and its intentions, and they have been lobbying other councillors not to attend so that those who attend will not form a quorum.”
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