Kainos Nyandoro, 43, who has been an engineer at Mhaka’s firm for 15 years, told The Zimbabwean that he was recently unfairly dismissed by Mhaka after he had refused to destroy huts and crops of villagers with whom he had quarrelled over ownership of Farm 21, West Block, located 19 km from Gweru along the Bulawayo road.
“The mission to go and destroy the huts was not part of my job description. So I refused to go and carry out the ruthless mission – but it seems I am now being victimised for that,” said Nyandoro. “I never received any notice of the termination of my contract and no compensation yet I had done my duties diligently all these years. When I tried to engage Mhaka, he boasted that he was so close to top Zanu (PF) officials that I would never win if I reported him,” said Nyandoro.
Recently 35 families, whose huts and crops were destroyed reportedly at the behest of Mhaka at the farm in question, approached the High
Court. Led by a former liberation war collaborator, Gibson Nyere, the families claim they have a right to stay on the farm as they had swapped it with Mhaka and allowed him to possess the farm they had been given by government.
Emmerson Mhaka, young brother to the suspended CMED boss, said Nyandoro had stopped coming to work, thereby “dismissing himself”. Everything else he is saying is not true. Those are just lies,” he said.
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