Search and seizure for HCC officials…as commission gets more teeth to probe Harare

Harare City Council (HCC) will be under the spotlight when the commission of inquiry set up to look into its affairs begins public hearings today after it was granted a warrant of search and seizure of important documents, including contracts of employment for the town clerk and directors.

Harare provincial magistrate Dennis Mangosi on June 13 this year granted an application for the warrant to the commission.

President Emmerson Mnangagwa last month appointed a commission of inquiry to investigate the City of Harare management and council since 2017.

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