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Zimbabwe: Mavambo Project Fails to Pay Agents
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The Zimbabwe Guardian (London)
15 May 2008
Posted to the web 15 May 2008
A PROVINCIAL coordinator for the Mavambo Project failed to pay polling officers who worked as agents for Dr Simba Makoni at the harmonised 29 March elections and may have converted the money to his personal use.
Retired Colonel Mutoti is reported to be giving different statements regarding the payments when contacted by people who worked on the polling day.
The Gweru urban constituency Co-ordinator, Zezai Makomo, who was also supposed to make sure that the payments were processed said she was also a victim
She said that she suspected that the money could have been converted "to his own use".
A member of the Mavambo project sai, "We were promised 100 rands a day for the three days that we worked from Election Day, March 29, up to when the counting exercise was completed. We fail to understand why the officials concerned are not paying us when our colleagues in other provinces were paid.
"Our colleagues in other provinces were paid the local equivalent of the amount using parallel market rates prevailing at that time,"
Dr Ibbo Mandaza, tha National Coordinator for Mavambo said their head office had released the funds.
"If there are some people who are still to receive their allowances then it is due to administrative problems at provincial level. As far as I know, head office has paid out the money," he said.
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Rtd Col Mutoti, dismissed the allegations.
"Vanhu vacho varikudaro vanopenga. They should speak to the people who engaged them. Being a co-ordinator does not mean that I have a duty to pay people. They know the people who engaged them and they should go to them. They should follow protocol. We do not operate that way in Mavambo (project). Failing to follow the right channels is what has killed many organisations," he said.
At least 75 polling agencies in the Gweru urban constituency alone were affected while figures from other constituencies were not yet ascertained at the time of going to Press.
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