MDC Alliance councillors at Mutare City Council have been implicated in a scam involving residential stands after they allocated themselves land that only new councillors were supposed to benefit from.
Eleven councillors, who served in the previous council and were allocated residential stands, got stands again when, according to council by-laws, only new councillors were supposed to benefit.
“Policy of the government is that a councillor gets a stand once in a lifetime, the term he has come in office.
But now, we have realised that some councillors have been getting a stand each time they have been in office, contrary to the policy of government,” the source said.
He added: “The town clerk is supposed to supervise all these but has been rewarding the Mutare councillors in return for what they have done for him — failure to send him on forced leave after being accused of abuse of office while serving Rusape council.”
