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Africa-Press<\/a> – Zimbabwe<\/a>. <\/strong><\/span>By Tonderai Saharo<\/b> – PARENTS and guardians with pupils attending Catholic-run Gokomere High and Primary schools, have approached the Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission (ZACC) demanding an audit of the learning centres\u2019 finances while complaining standards were \u201cnose-diving\u201d.<\/p>\n

The two Masvingo-based schools are some of the best performing learning centres in Zimbabwe.<\/p>\n

The petition was addressed to the ZACC executive secretary Sukai Tongogara and copied to the Auditor General\u2019s Office, the President\u2019s Office, Police Commissioner-General Godwin Matanga, and the Zimbabwe Catholic Bishop\u2019s Conference.<\/p>\n

The parents are requesting an audit of the institution\u2019s financials suspecting misappropriation of funds by the schools\u2019 authorities.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe, the parents of children learning at Gokomere Primary and Secondary schools are kindly praying and requesting your reputable office to urgently come to the rescue of us, parents, and our children, and have an audit of these schools\u2019 finances,\u201d the petition reads in part.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe have witnessed children\u2019s welfare conditions deteriorate as years pass by to the extent that our children\u2019s welfare and education have been grossly compromised and have reached deplorable levels.\u201d<\/p>\n

The parents said they tried to seek audience with the respective headmasters and the priest-in-charge of the schools but to no avail.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis has led the parents to assume that there is gross mismanagement of funds at the institutions since fees paid don\u2019t tally with services provided. Therefore, we seek your intervention and clarity on the issue of \u2018mismanagement of funds which we suspect.\u201d<\/p>\n

According to the protest letter, the priest-in-charge kept the school\u2019s bank cards and uses them for personal expenses which were against the government\u2019s statutes.<\/p>\n

\u201cOne of the statutes of the mission bars any member of the responsible authority to be a signatory to the school\u2019s account but the priest-in-charge is the signatory.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe responsible authority is only supposed to be given 10% from the fees paid but their involvement in the school\u2019s account renders that government requirement useless. The responsible authority is getting more than 10%,\u201d read the petition.<\/p>\n

The parents also accused Masvingo province Education Ministry officials of derelict of duty, and corruption as some of them were implicated in supplying the Gokomere schools with goods and services.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe no longer have faith in the local (Education) Ministry officials and auditor\u2019s capacity to do the job since they appear like accomplices and beneficiaries of the corrupt system since conditions and the learner\u2019s welfare have been deteriorating for years and they simply decided to ignore all that.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn fact, we strongly feel that they also need to be charged with gross incompetence, aiding and abating corruption, and some for being corrupt themselves.\u201d reads the petition.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Africa-Press – Zimbabwe. By Tonderai Saharo – PARENTS and guardians with pupils attending Catholic-run Gokomere High and Primary schools, have approached the Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission (ZACC) demanding an audit of the learning centres\u2019 finances while complaining standards were \u201cnose-diving\u201d. The two Masvingo-based schools are some of the best performing learning centres in Zimbabwe. 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