adminThe late Chenjerai Kahari’s relatives accused Mr Nyaude of donating a substandard tombstone after allegedly misappropriating funds that were allegedly availed by Heal Zimbabwe Trust.
It is understood that Mr Nyaude dumped the tombstone at the home of the late Chenjerai’s mother.
“We started complaining about the delays in providing the tombstone for our brother who died in 2008 after realising that people who died in 2012 already had tombstones at their graves provided through the MP,” said Mr Tonderai Kahari, young brother to the late Chenjerai at the family home in Chekari village in Bindura last week.
“He only brought the tombstone after we recently asked if we were supposed to do it on our own because he had been procrastinating for a very long time. That is when he sent his driver to come and dump the tombstone here. Party activists in this ward can afford to buy this. Sometime ago he took me to Harare where we got quotations for a tombstone for US$500 and he promised that it was already sorted only to surprise us when he dumped this substandard tombstone.”
Mr Nelson Mandizha, who is uncle to the late Chenjerai, said they were not sure of the motive behind Mr Nyaude’s donation at a time when the party is preparing for primary elections.
However, Mr Nyaude dismissed the claims saying he was buying the tombstones from his personal purse. do is subject to availability of funds so I did not have the money.”
Heal Zimbabwe Trust director Mr Rashid Mahiya distanced his organisation from the donation.
“We never involve any members of Parliament in the work that we do. We don’t even donate tombstones. You may be quite aware that our country has experienced a lot of conflict both pre and post colonial Zimbabwe and that there is need for communities to come together. Also realising that a number of communities were torn apart by conflict most recently in 2008 and that is violence that took place in 2008 so we are trying to bring communities together,” said Mr Mahiya.
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