{"id":77508,"date":"2023-05-05T09:48:47","date_gmt":"2023-05-05T07:48:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/home-affairs-secretary-gwinji-fingered-in-property-row-disputed-land-listed-in-bona-mugabe-divorce"},"modified":"2023-05-05T13:11:32","modified_gmt":"2023-05-05T11:11:32","slug":"home-affairs-secretary-gwinji-fingered-in-property-row-disputed-land-listed-in-bona-mugabe-divorce","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.cc\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/home-affairs-secretary-gwinji-fingered-in-property-row-disputed-land-listed-in-bona-mugabe-divorce","title":{"rendered":"Home Affairs secretary Gwinji fingered in property row; disputed land listed in Bona Mugabe divorce"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Zimbabwe. <\/strong><\/span><b>By Staff Reporter<\/b><\/p>\n<p>A Harare based property developing company, Arosume Property Development battling late former President Robert Mugabe\u2019s family and business allies accusing them of disrupting its operations has singled out Home Affairs permanent secretary Gerald Gwinji in the row.<\/p>\n<p>Gwinji has been sucked into a property dispute between the company and Louisa Kalenga-Bandal amid reports of spirited attempts to interrogate his Local Government peer Zvinechimwe Churu.<\/p>\n<p>The company claims there are forces disrupting its operations, and unceasing efforts or attempts to gain an illegal foothold in the upscale Carrick Creagh estate.<\/p>\n<p>One of the properties at the centre of the dispute was listed by Bona Mugabe\u2019s estranged husband, Simba Chikore in his divorce claim.<\/p>\n<p>While stand number 313 of Carrick Creagh has curiously been listed under Chikore and Bona Mugabe\u2019s divorce case, the company has since issued a statement to the effect that the Mugabes and their circle did not own land there.<\/p>\n<p>The company has since lodged a complaint against Gwinji in a letter addressed to Local government secretary, Churu stating that the former has no right to involve himself in the operational command of the police or direct how an investigation should be conducted.<\/p>\n<p>A letter by the company, written through its lawyers, Jiti Law chambers, gleaned by NewZimbabwe.com reads, \u201cWe are instructed to lodge this extraordinary complaint against the unfair meddling, and potentially unlawful conduct of&#8230; Gwinji in the administration of the tripartite agreement.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The company added that Arosume\u2019s June 2007 partnership with the government still subsisted and the issues with Kalenga-Bandal did not fall under the Home Affairs secretary\u2019s purview and protocol demands.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt has come to our attention that on the 16th of March 2023&#8230; addressed a letter (to his peer) on behalf of the Criminal Investigation Department\u2019s commercial crimes division&#8230; to interview you. That alone is bizarre,\u201d it said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are further concerned that it appears that CID CCD and Mr Gwinji\u2019s request for various pieces of information was never intended to aid any investigation but to aid Mrs Louisa Duduzile Kalenga Bandals weak position in ongoing civil litigation.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt has also come to our client\u2019s attention that on March 29 2023, she addressed a letter titled, \u201crequest for documents to be used for civil litigation\u201d to the police requesting almost all the documents CID CCD was collecting from your ministry and from our client. We have advised our client that in terms of the law, the police can only use documents collected. It is not the business of the police or Mr Gwinji to support some selected litigants at the expense of others,\u201d reads the letter.<\/p>\n<p>The lawyers say according to Gwinji\u2019s support letter for Kalenga-Bandal, the latter had been the \u201cpermanent and true owner of stand number 313 under the Sally Mugabe Housing Cooperative (SMHC)\u201d, which was meant to benefit civil servants.<\/p>\n<p>The same stand was listed by Chikore in his divorce papers.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn 2004, stand number 313 did not exist at law because the subdivision was only approved by the surveyor general on the 25th of January 2008. At no point in 2004 was SMHC empowered\/entitled to allocate Borrowdale land,\u201d the lawyers said in a stinging rebuttal, adding the Home Affairs secretary\u2019s \u201crequests for certain documents in an on-going civil litigation was worrying and the claims were bereft of fact as the farmland forming the estate was only acquired in 2006\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cGwinji has no power or authority to (directly or indirectly) to allocate state land, which is administered by another ministry.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHaving been a secretary for a while this is known to him and, as such, his attempt to assert falsely that&#8230; Bandal was \u2018permanently allocated\u2019 is improper and could only be motivated by either a corrupt intent..,\u201d they said in the letter also copied to the commissioner-general police Goodwin Matanga and the National Housing ministry.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The lawyers say Gwinji\u2019s actions not only risked undermining the private-public partnership and government policy, but he had \u201cno power to reverse cabinet decisions regarding the sale or allocation of state land.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>For More News And Analysis About <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\">Zimbabwe<\/a> Follow <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/\">Africa-Press<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Zimbabwe. By Staff Reporter A Harare based property developing company, Arosume Property Development battling late former President Robert Mugabe\u2019s family and business allies accusing them of disrupting its operations has singled out Home Affairs permanent secretary Gerald Gwinji in the row. 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