Africa-Press – Zimbabwe. Suspended Registrar-General Clemence Masango has written a letter of complaint to Police Commissioner-General Godwin Matanga against Zimbabwe Anti-corruption Commission (ZACC) chairperson Loice Matanda-Moyo and Eric Chacha, a police officer from the Police Anti-Corruption Unit (PACU).
In the letter, Masango alleges that his arrest and the criminal abuse of office charges he is facing “are clearly a culmination of a gross abuse of duty” by Matanda-Moyo and Chacha, the investigating officer in the matter.
Masango was suspended without salary and allowances by the Public Service Commission (PSC) on charges of criminal abuse of office as a public officer last year.
He allegedly instructed CMED to buy a double cab and six single cab pick-up trucks without Cabinet approval before using the vehicles at his farm.
Masango has however insisted on his innocence and in his letter to Matanga, he accuses Peter Bwanya, who was then the Chief Accountant in the Civil Registry Department, in 2020, of working in cahoots with Chacha against him. He wrote:
In my letter of complaint, I categorically denied any wrongdoing and highlighted how Peter Bwanya was deliberately misrepresenting facts for the purposes of diverting the authorities’ attention from the disciplinary action that was pending against him.
I also registered my concerns and reservations with individual members of ZACC, especially Eric Chacha who was not behaving professionally and was abusing his office and position to the personal benefit of Peter Bwanya.
It appeared to me that Peter Bwanya and Eric Chacha were in league and had established some form of alliance against me.
Needless to say, this complaint ought to have alerted the Chairperson of ZACC about the unprofessional manner in which her officer was conducting himself.
My written complaint was however neither responded to nor even acknowledged by the said Chairperson.
Masango accused Matanda-Moyo of malice over the manner in which she reported his arrest on television. He said:
… the ZACC Chairperson also stated that they had recovered 7 vehicles from me which vehicles I had been using to run personal errands at my farm.
She did not disclose the particulars of said vehicles neither did she state the name or location of my so-called farm.
In fact, at the time I am alleged to have committed the offence I did not even own a farm. What aggravates matters and clearly demonstrates malice is the fact that ZACC only ever seized two vehicles which vehicles were in fact parked at Central Registry.
If they had cared to check the respective vehicles’ logbooks and Transport Officer’s records, they would have easily ascertained the history of use and deployment of said vehicles.
Masango said he was also taking the matter to the Head of the Special Anti-Corruption Unit (SACU) in the office of the President and Cabinet. He said:
… I would like to lodge an official complaint against them with your office. By copy of this letter, I also formally submit this complaint to the Head of the Special Anti-Corruption Unit (SACU) in the office of the President and Cabinet.
I am available should your office require any additional representations on this matter.
