Mhurushonana this week told The Zimbabwean that he was battling to get his money as Zifa were playing hide and seek with him.
According to documents in possession of The Zimbabwean, Mhurushomana wants salary arrears of $1 500 for 72 months, fuel allowances totalling $11 840 and a phone allowance of $15 600, to bring the total claim to $135 440. No interest is being charged.
The two parties agreed that Mhurushomana be retrenched. While discussing the retrenchment package, Mhurushomana was placed on forced leave. Although the two parties agreed on retrenchment they did not agree on the package.
Mhurushomana then received an arbitration award in his favour by one TR Madzimure and made an application to register the award with the High Court for the purpose of enforcement under case HC 5721/10.
Although Madzimure has since left her place of employment and so cannot attend to the quantification of the award, her judgment in the arbitration of the award she granted to Mhurushomana reads in part:
"That L Mhurushomana be paid his salary and benefits up to the time they agree on a retrenchment package which should be documented and signed by both parties."
An independent arbitrator, AJ Manase on 31 March 2010 wrote to Mhurushomana's lawyer FG Gijima and Associates that he also held in constant the $1 500 Mhurushomana is demanding for the period at stake.
Mhurushomana says he is fed up with their promises and wants to have their property attached.
However, Zifa's lawyer, Ralph Maganga, this week said there was no basis to peg Mhurushomana's salary at $1 500 during the period of 2005, when the legal tender then was the Zimbabwean dollar.
"There was no factual basis for the figures for Mhurushomana's salary to have been pegged at $1 500 given that Zifa are the only ones aware of his salary. To date, not even a single Zifa employee or the Chief Executive Officer earns that much," says Maganga.
Maganga also says there is no basis for the $200 per month fuel allowance.
Maganga claims they in 2005 paid Mhurushomana a severance package of 40 million Zimbabwean dollars. He says they have also given Mhurushomana a Mazda 323 he is using as a retrenchment package. The Zifa lawyer says Zifa are in fact considering giving Mhurushomana $11 705 in addition to the 40 million they gave him in 2005.
"There is no Director of Administration at Zifa anymore. That position is now called Administration Officer and the same earns $647, not $1 500 as alleged," says Maganga.
Mhurushomana, however, says he rejected the $40 million cheque he was given which was from a Sport and Recreation Commission account saying by doing so he is still legally employed by Zifa.
Zifa are $2 million in the red.
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