{"id":99518,"date":"2024-10-14T12:34:05","date_gmt":"2024-10-14T10:34:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/police-nab-karois-acting-town-secretary"},"modified":"2024-10-14T14:37:07","modified_gmt":"2024-10-14T12:37:07","slug":"police-nab-karois-acting-town-secretary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/police-nab-karois-acting-town-secretary","title":{"rendered":"Police nab Karoi\u2019s acting town secretary"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Zimbabwe. <\/strong><\/span>THE police in Karoi have arrested the town\u2019s council acting town secretary Tongai Namusala while the city fathers have suspended him with immediate effect.<\/p>\n<p>Namusala was arrested on Saturday last week and spent the weekend at the ZRP Karoi holding cells as investigations are ongoing.<\/p>\n<p>Karoi town council chairperson Kudakwashe Chigumo in a notice said Namusala had been suspended with immediate effect.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur esteemed stakeholders and colleagues are hereby advised of the suspension of acting town secretary Mr Tongai Namusala with immediate effect.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAlso kindly take note that Engineer William Chikwanda has been appointed acting town Secretary with immediate effect awaiting due process at our Ordinary Full Council. Be advised accordingly,\u201d Chigumo wrote.<\/p>\n<p>In an interview, Chigumo confirmed that investigations were underway but could not divulge more details.<\/p>\n<p>Sources privy to the investigations yesterday claimed that Namusala was implicated in a US$54 000 deal that went wrong.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis matter was unearthed by councillors and several officials will be arrested soon,\u201d the sources said.<\/p>\n<p>The ZRP provincial spokesperson Inspector Ian Kohwera could neither deny nor confirm the arrest.<\/p>\n<p>The Karoi town council has been rocked by cases of corruption implicating senior officials who have since been arraigned before the courts.<\/p>\n<p>Several cases are still pending in the courts.<\/p>\n<p><strong>For More News And Analysis About Zimbabwe Follow Africa-Press<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Zimbabwe. THE police in Karoi have arrested the town\u2019s council acting town secretary Tongai Namusala while the city fathers have suspended him with immediate effect. Namusala was arrested on Saturday last week and spent the weekend at the ZRP Karoi holding cells as investigations are ongoing. Karoi town council chairperson Kudakwashe Chigumo in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":99517,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,12],"tags":[19],"class_list":["post-99518","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-policy","tag-zimbabwe"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Police nab Karoi\u2019s acting town secretary - zimbabwe<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"THE police in Karoi have arrested the town\u2019s council acting town secretary Tongai Namusala while the city fathers have s ...\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/police-nab-karois-acting-town-secretary\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Police nab Karoi\u2019s acting town secretary\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"THE police in Karoi have arrested the town\u2019s council acting town secretary Tongai Namusala while the city fathers have s ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/police-nab-karois-acting-town-secretary\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"zimbabwe\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2024-10-14T10:34:05+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2024-10-14T12:37:07+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/sites\/14\/2024\/10\/sm_1728896802.81811.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"720\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"288\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/police-nab-karois-acting-town-secretary#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/police-nab-karois-acting-town-secretary\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"Police nab Karoi\u2019s acting town secretary\",\"datePublished\":\"2024-10-14T10:34:05+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2024-10-14T12:37:07+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/police-nab-karois-acting-town-secretary\"},\"wordCount\":226,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/police-nab-karois-acting-town-secretary#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/sites\/14\/2024\/10\/sm_1728896802.81811.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Zimbabwe\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"policy\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/police-nab-karois-acting-town-secretary#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/police-nab-karois-acting-town-secretary\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/police-nab-karois-acting-town-secretary\",\"name\":\"Police nab Karoi\u2019s acting town secretary - 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