Morgan Tsvangirai’s provincial executive has set up a team of private investigators to investigate the local authority’s Mayor over corruption allegations recently unearthed by an internal audit.
The audit which leaked to the media last week, exposed massive corruption by Chitungwiza council officials including the Mayor, Phillip Mutoti who is a senior member of MDC-T.
In the damning audit, Mutoti and his councillors are said to have looted 90 residential stands.
In an interview with ZimEye.com in Harare Tuesday, Lloyd Damba, the MDC-T Chitungwiza provincial secretary, said his party was taking the audit seriously.
“As a party of excellence which does not condone corruption, the executive (MDC-T Chitungwiza), has unanimously resolved that we set up a private investigation team which will probe the allegations,” he said.
“The provincial executive has also appointed a three observer team from within itself: one from the main body, one from the youth wing and the other one from the Women’s Assembly.”
“We have done this as part of our mandate to jealously guard the values and principles of the party because allegations of corruption are of a serious nature and they have a great potential of denting the image of our party,” he said.