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Innocent Ruwende Municipal Reporter
Harare town clerk Dr Tendai Mahachi is now demanding an exit package from the cash-strapped municipality after he was sent on forced leave last month. The Herald is reliably informed that Dr Mahachi’s lawyers have since engaged council over the matter. Dr Mahachi was set to retire at the end of the year.
“Dr Mahachi has offered to leave after seeing that he was not going to win the war with mayor Manyenyeni. He had agreed to leave council in December. Dr Mahachi however, gave us the burden of working out his package which is likely to be a hefty one,” said the source.
Clr Manyenyeni confirmed the development yesterday.
“They wrote a letter and they are saying let us sit down and discuss on the contract,” he said.
Sources at Town House said some directors are now jostling to replace Dr Mahachi.
The city’s Human resources and General Purposes chairperson Clr Wellington Chikombo yesterday said Dr Mahachi’s replacement would be chosen on merit.
“Town House is not a Banana Republic where idiocy is allowed to reign supreme much to the detriment of the city. We will not allow anyone who is not qualified to occupy that position on the basis that he has bought support from councillors. We want someone who is heavily chlorinated and competent,” he said.
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