As the ZANU PF Congress swung into full mode Thursday, the former ZIFA boss, Henrieta Rushwaya , fired for alleged misconduct in the infamous so called “Asiagate Scandal”, returned to her employer’s pad demanding to be reinstated and be paid all the salary she lost.
Speaking in an exclusive interview on the sidelines of the ZANU PF crunch Congress, Ms Rushwaya told ZimEye.com  she was not paid a single penny during her tenure at ZIFA, and partly blamed her fate on the President Cuthbert Dube and his board for what she said was “the Asiagate Scandal which never existed”.
Her lawyers, Chinyama and Partners Legal Practitioners yesterday wrote to Zifa CEO Jonathan Mashingaidze demanding she be reinstated to her post within 48 hours and asked the mother body to pay the salary arrears within seven days.
The letter which was copied to Fifa secretary-general Jerome Valcke.
“Our client was employed by Zifa in terms of written contract of employment for a period of four years at an initial salary of $3 000 which she genuinely expected to rise to $4 000 after a period of six months and to be constantly reviewed after each and every twelve months,” the letter read in part.
“During her tenure of employment as CEO of Zifa she has never received any salary at all from your organisation despite the written contract of employment and your organisation owes our client arrear salaries at the rate of $4 000 per month for a period of 48 months which when calculated translates to $144 000,” the lawyers said.
Rushwaya told ZimEye.com, “I worked for 48 months which is equivalent to four years without being paid a single cent.” She blamed her demise on what she said were malicious attacks from the Cuthbert Dube led ZIFA board. Watch this space for the full interview.