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Daniel Nemukuyu Harare Bureau
ZIFA president Cuthbert Dube’s fortunes took a nosedive this week after the Sheriff of the High Court stormed his Mt Pleasant home yesterday morning and cleared household property as well as five top of the range vehicles to recover $117,000 owed to Pandhari Lodge.
The country’s football controlling body enjoyed the hospitality and services of Pandhari Lodge in Harare between February 2 and September 30, 2013, but did not pay.
To that end, Dube, who had offered himself as guarantor, had his personal property attached to settle the debt earlier this year.
Dube in February successfully stopped the initial removal of his property after presenting a payment plan to Pandhari, but yesterday he lost it all after defaulting on the payment plan.
Apart from the $117,000 owed to Pandhari, the Sheriff will recover his collection costs to the tune of $7,917 from the attached property.
The Sheriff, Macduff Madhega, and his team, took away the following property:
l Toyota Land Cruiser (AAD 1368);
l Land Rover Discovery (AAQ 3270);
l Mercedes Benz S600 (ACO 0649);
l VW GTI (ABF9563);
l Mini Cooper (ACM 2807).
The sheriff also attached household property, including:
l 4 x refrigerators;
l 3 x sets of leather sofas;
l 1 x brown couch;
l 1 x washing machine; and,
l microwaves.
In February the debt stood at $281,000 but Dube undertook to clear it in monthly instalments, but later defaulted.
He paid $164,000, leaving a balance of $117,000.
The officers from the Sheriff’s office yesterday stormed Dube’s double-storey Mt Pleasant mansion at 6am but due to resistance from the guards, they only gained access an hour later after Madhega arrived in person.
They started by driving the vehicles away before getting into the mansion to take away the furniture.
The property was attached on the strength of a High Court order issued by Justice Lavender Makoni on January 21 this year.
The order reads:
“It is ordered that the application for summary judgment be and is hereby granted. The respondents (ZIFA and Dube) shall pay to the applicant (Pandhari Lodge), jointly or severally, the one paying the other, to be absolved the sum of $268,435 together with interest at the prescribed rate of 5 percent per annum from the date of summons (October 24, 2013) to the date of full and final payment . . .”
The Zifa president has come under increasing pressure in recent weeks to quit, with a number of stakeholders concerned that football has suffered badly since he took over as the leader of domestic football.
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