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His application also seeks to make null and void all the evidence brought before the committee saying it had a predisposition of bias and malice in the conduct of its enquiry.
The Guvamombe committee, set up by Chombo was investigating Chideya on allegations that he abused his authority by arbitrarily suspending or dismissing council employees, that undeserving people, who did not meet set criteria, were unprocedurally allocated housing stands and that he wrongfully supplied water to private residence in a fire fighting truck.
Allegations against Chideya are that he unprocedurally allocated housing stands to his personal assistant Mazhawidza in Eastlea, and also made similar allocations to his close colleagues such as Michael Padera, J.Dzomba Padera, R. Chirinda among others.
Chideya was also said to have provided water in a fire truck on several occasions to deputy commissioner Tendai Savanhu’s residence whose address was given as No. 88 Folyjon Crescent, Borrowdale.
“The quantity of water delivered on each occasion and the frequency of deliveries was shockingly high given that this was a private individual requiring water for domestic use,” said the report
Chideya however argued that he was under instructions from Chombo to deliver the water to Savanhu’s house. Savanhu has since been dropped by Chombo from the new-look Harare Commission he announced last week, that will still be headed by Makwavarara.
Chideya, in his defence, alleged interference by Chombo and the chairperson of the commission running the affairs of Harare Sekesai Makwavarara.
Chideya maintains in his court papers that his suspension was politically motivated, an assertion dismissed by the inquiry report.
“The committee finds that the issue of malice, spite or ill-will on the part of Makwavarara could not be decided on given that it had nothing to do with the specificity of charges preferred against the Town Clerk.
“Chideya has serious grievances against the chairperson of the commission running the affairs of the City of Harare, but these are independent of charges preferred against him which are before this committee.”