Stop Chitungwiza land thieves

When MDC-T leader Morgan Tsvangirai fired the entire council of Chitungwiza last year after party investigations proved they were corrupt, Ignatius Chombo, the Local Government minister, in his wisdom or otherwise, came out in their defence and used urban councils statutes to nullify the dismissals.

So the councillors remained in office but they remained fired from the MDC-T. The party insisted the city fathers were “rotten to the core” and the party did not want to continue to be represented in office by that calibre of persons.

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