Former Chi-town clerk’s trial kicks off

The trial of former Chitungwiza town clerk Godfrey Tanyanyiwa, charged with corruption and fraud, including swindling the local authority of
$718 753, kicked off at the Harare Magistrates’ Court yesterday.

Tanyanyiwa, who is also being accused of renting out his personal property in Chisipite, Harare, to Chitungwiza Municipality’s director of urban planning Conrad Muchesa, for which council paid him $1 300 in monthly rentals for five months, pleaded not guilty to all the 10 counts when he was arraigned before regional magistrate Hosea Mujaya.

In his defence, Tanyanyiwa dismissed as “just malicious, frivolous and vexatious” accusations that sometime in September 2010 he caused council to transfer $80 000 into Floburg Real Estate’s bank account on the pretext of paying for the servicing of Nyatsime stands when he was partly settling the purchase of his Chisipite house.

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