A senior pastor at Harvest House International who was also the provincial planning officer at the Ministry of Local Government and Public Works for Manicaland Province has been convicted by a Harare Magistrate of corruption.
According to the National Prosecuting Authority of Zimbabwe (NPA), Fungai Munyama was convicted on 20 February and will appear in court on Monday next week for sentencing. Said the NPA:
In 2010 the accused person corruptly issued a public notice indicating intention to change the use of the land belonging to Mutare Teachers College from institutional expansion to warehousing and residential use.
He did not notify Mutare Teachers College of the ministry’s intention to change the land use. He only notified Mutare Council and Mutare Probation Hostel and Remand who raised their objections on the 10th of April 2010.
The accused person also misrepresented to his superiors that he had followed all procedures to ascertain that the land was not reserved for institutional expansion purposes.
The Ministry of Local Government and Public Works relied on the misrepresentation made by the accused person and approved a new layout plan for five garden flats, a warehouse, an open space, and two churches on the same piece of land.
The Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission (ZACC) conducted investigations and established that Munyama had appropriated a garden flat stand and facilitated the allocation of a church stand to his church, Harvest House International.
