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THE Ministry of Primary and Secondary Education has demoted and transferred the headmaster of Guinea Fowl High School, Mr Manson Mudzingwa, after he was found guilty of abuse of school funds.
Mr Mudzingwa is now the deputy headmaster at Mupasi Secondary School in Mberengwa.
The ministry ordered him to reimburse Guinea Fowl High School more than $2,000 which he was illegally getting as a $200 monthly allowance.
Midlands Province Education Director Mrs Agnes Gudo confirmed the development.
“Yes the Guinea Fowl High School headmaster has been demoted and transferred to a school in Mberengwa,” said Mrs Gudo.
Mr Mudzingwa was one of the 15 school heads in the Midlands Province who were suspended for allegedly embezzling school funds.
Ministry sources said the 15 school heads were suspended after a recent audit conducted by the ministry which exposed misappropriation of school funds.
Last year in November, the heads of Chikumbiro Primary School, Mkoba 3 and Nkululeko High schools were also suspended for the same offence.
In Bulawayo, Milton High School head Mr William Ncube and his deputy Mrs Nosizi Muleya were also suspended for allegedly abusing school funds last year while Townsend High School headmistress Mrs Millicent Moyo was censured for contravening the Public Finance Management Act and the Treasury Instructions Act after auctioning pupils’ cellphones without permission.
Forensic audits ordered by the Ministry of Primary and Secondary Education have revealed that school authorities across the country could have embezzled millions of dollars from levies paid by parents.
According to the report, about 1,800 schools (18 percent) have been audited and the exercise has unearthed massive doctoring of accounts documents to conceal the shenanigans.
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