Masimirembwa Stringed in $3Million Scandal at Nehanda Housing Cooperative
15 January 2015
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Ex-Zimbabwe Mining Development Corporatio(ZMDC) boss, Goodwills Masimirembwa has been stringed into the Nehanda Housing Cooperative scandal which has seen $3Million swindled by war veterans and army bosses.
Mr Masimirembwa who is the ZANU PF provincial chair assigned to address the complaints of the fraud victims who are demanding the Cooperative’s bosses be fired or at the least suspended, soiled his reputation and that of ZANU PF when he refused to take action saying he would rather have the matter heard at court.
This occurred when members of the cooperative on Wednesday stormed the ZANU (PF) Harare provincial head offices appealing for the party’s intervention in the alleged corruption and fraud by the cooperative leadership.
The housing cooperative is being run by former freedom fighters and senior members of the security forces.
Among the complaints raised included misappropriation of over $3 million dollars in fees which the members have been contributing since 2002 for housing development, nepotism and favoritism in stands and housing allocations.
The disgruntled members have revealed the cooperative leader Never Kowo has failed to hold annual general meetings for seven years running.
“We have not been holding any meeting with the leadership which has become arrogant and invisible”, said one of the members at the ZANU (PF) provincial head offices before they were addressed by Godwills Masimirembwa.
“We want transparency and accountability in the management of the money we have been contributing. We want them to show us how the funds are being used and this can be done on an AGM which we have not been holding for years. We also want leadership renewal because the current committee is corrupt and has been there for more than ten years now”, another angry middle aged women said.
The housing cooperative members who have already taken their leadership to the courts on corruption and misappropriation of funds findings firmly supported by audit reports, said the case is being delayed.
“We now think that Kowo and company are paying bribes to the courts because we are being made to see only government officials. We have tried to go to the Minister of Small and Medium Enterprises and Co-operative Development, Sithembiso Nyoni’s office with our complaint and we were told several times that she was on sick leave,” he said,
“We also sought audience with the Prosecutor General Jahannes Tomana and again were blocked”, he said.
ZimEye.com was however barred from the meeting by the party’s security officials who it was confidential.
During that meeting Masimirembwa said that the meeting was not going to address the members’ concerns’ because the case was before the courts.
“It is unfortunate that you cannot attend the proceedings here because of the confidentiality of meeting .But we want to tell you that we have agreed to hold this meeting because the complaints are coming from our party members and as a party we have to hear them. What we cannot do is to give any solution because the case is being heard by the courts. What we can do here and what they are going to be told by the chairman is that they should not be violent but wait for the courts,” two security details told ZimEye.com
When contacted, Masimirembwa claimed he had no knowledge of what was taking place.
“I don’t know anything you are talking about,” he claimed despite having addressed the disgruntled members on the same day.

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