Kasukuwere Blocks “Grace” Salary Audit
8 March 2016
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dodger...Saviour Kasukuwere
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By Terrence Mawawa, Masvingo|Local Government Minister Saviour Kasukuwere has blocked independent auditors from carrying out a salary and expenditure analysis at Masvingo City Council fearing the move will expose his G40 (Grace Mugabe) allies.
The troubled local authority is under pressure from the civic society to allow independent auditors to analyse the city council’s accounts . An independent audit is expected to drastically whittle the huge salary bill so that the funds can be channelled towards service delivery.
However efforts to bring independent auditors to analyse the city council ‘s accounts at the Civic Centre -the local authority’s headquarters-have been thwarted by Kasukuwere. The Local Government Minister issued a directive barring auditors from heading to the Civic Centre.
Top city council bosses including town clerk, Adolf Gusha, a known Grace Mugabe ally, are said to be earning hefty salaries ranging from $10 000 to 20 000.
Kasukuwere also blocked efforts by the civic society to put pressure on Gusha to publicly declare his salary.
The local authority is also under pressure from stakeholders for coming up with a budget described as astronomical in order to increase salary perks for the council bosses.
“There is mounting pressure from stakeholders to bring independent auditors to the Civic Centre but Kasukuwere has since resisted the move because he fears his allies will be exposed ,” said a senior council employee.
Kasukuwere has also been accused of playing the mind game by purporting to curb corruption while he is shielding Zanu PF bigwigs -mainly members of the controversial G40 group.
Masvingo City Council is furthermore under fire for paying hefty perks to a few bosses at a time the local authority is battling to supply clean water.
The city council is currently grappling with a ballooning debt in the form of unpaid salaries for its workers.

5 Replies to “Kasukuwere Blocks “Grace” Salary Audit”

  1. A very misleading headline. No wonder why Grrace is always mad . Some of the things you write lacks integrity . How is Grace involved in a legitimate salary given to a council worker? Though Kasukuwire is wrong to block the external auditors to do their job but there is no evidence that he did it for Grace. If someone wants to know who is earning what one can just request the payroll summary for the year. All the information is there and you do not need to waste money on unnecessary audits.

  2. Big thieves and corrupters. One day it will come to an end you will gnash your teeth.

  3. Big thieves and corrupters. One day it will come to an end you will gnash your teeth.

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