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Harare city councilors granted bail
Tichaona Sibanda, SW Radio Africa
September 29, 2011

http://www.swradioafrica.com/news290911/hrecity290911.htm

Two Harare city councillors, Warship Dumba of Ward 17, Mt Pleasant and Casper Takura from Ward 20, Tafara, were granted US$100 bail each on Wednesday following their arrest last week.

The two councillors were arrested in Mabvuku on trumped-charges of fraud. The complainant in the case, Josephine Ncube, is a Harare city council chamber secretary. Dumba and Takura earlier this year reported Ncube to the police for stealing council land.

The MDC-T strongly denounced the arrest of the councilors saying that they are being persecuted for fighting corruption in Harare city council.

Dumba and Takura were part of the eight-member team that investigated and exposed local government Minister Ignatius Chombo and businessman Philip Chiyangwa's alleged land theft, in a damning 54-page report.

MDC-T spokesman for Harare province, Obert Gutu, says the crackdown on the two councillors has nothing to do with fraud but is an attempt by Chombo and Chiyangwa to settle old scores.

When Dumba and his team gave the incriminating report to the police to investigate, the police instead arrested them and the journalists who covered the story. In March Chombo claimed to have sacked Dumba and Casper Takura, accusing them of dishonesty, fraud and mismanagement of council funds.

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