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Tsvangirai Girlfriends Hotel Cash: Mayor, Town Clerk Arrested
10 March 2016
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Suspended Gweru Mayor, Hamutendi Kombayi and Town Clerk, Daniel Matawu were on Thursday afternoon picked up by the police on allegations of theft, fraud and criminal abuse of office after they allegedly used council funds to pay for MDCT leader Morgan Tsvangirai and his huge entourage’s lodging at the upmarket Antelope Park Lodge in Gweru.
In a development seen to be aimed at destroying the MDC leader’s reputation, Tsvangirai’s entourage is alleged to have been amongst senior MDCT officials including several young ladies who are not in the MDCT structures.
The total cost of the weekend outing settled using council funds is reported to have totalled $185 000.00.
A picture of Morgan Tsvangirai with the women at the lodge made massive media headlines in recent weeks.
Sources at the lodge who spoke on condition of remaining anonymous confirmed to ZimEye.com that an entourage of senior MDCT officials and guests spent two nights at the expensive lodge drinking and eating resulting in a bill that ran into thousands of dollars.
According to the sources, it took several days before the hotel bill was settled as some officials and their guests remained at the lodge for a couple of days more after the rest had checked out.

Some of the pictures from Tsvangirai'a escapades at the Gweru hotel
Some of the pictures from Tsvangirai’a escapades at the Gweru hotel

The officials would not confirm the source of the money that immediately settled the bill.
ZRP Acting Midlands Spokesperson, Assistant Inspector Ethel Mukwende confirmed the arrest, saying the two are in police custody assisting with investigations.
During his familiarisation tour recently in Gweru, the Minister of Local Government, Public Works and National Housing, Saviour Kasukuwere instructed the commission currently running the affairs of the city to fire any official implicated for any wrong doing.
The City of Gweru is battling with service delivery and owes its workers over six months in salary arrears.
At the time of writing ZimEye.com was still investigating the allegations of (council)funds abuse amid questions on the possibility of Kombayi accessing the money at a time when he is under suspension. More to follow…

18 Replies to “Tsvangirai Girlfriends Hotel Cash: Mayor, Town Clerk Arrested”

  1. This story is so foolish and stupid no sane journalist would associate his name with it. How can a suspended mayor pay from council; coffers he has no access to. You rightly said the source of funds are not known. Who then brought up the council funds into this story. Come pple stop this foolish journalist

  2. This story is so foolish and stupid no sane journalist would associate his name with it. How can a suspended mayor pay from council; coffers he has no access to. You rightly said the source of funds are not known. Who then brought up the council funds into this story. Come pple stop this foolish journalist

  17. You arrest for thousands and fail to arrest for billions stolen from the diamond mines. The police is pathetic. Police is being used like condoms by Mugabe and his ZANU PF.

  18. You arrest for thousands and fail to arrest for billions stolen from the diamond mines. The police is pathetic. Police is being used like condoms by Mugabe and his ZANU PF.

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