BARELY a month after President Emmerson Mnangagwa change into made to give up some 480 hectares of the leisure of Arlington Estate to PPC Zimbabwe, documents receive printed it has belonged to a housing cooperative since 2006.
The Nyikavanhu Housing Cooperative now alleges that Local Govt Minister Daniel Garwe, who invited Mnangagwa to give up the land, fraudulently altered documents to PPC Zimbabwe’s benefit.
Per Excessive Court summons gleaned by NewZimbabwe.com and supporting documents from Nyikavanhu Housing Cooperative, the federal government offered them 530.25 hectares of Subdivision E of Arlington in 2006 for the growth of houses.
Though the structure opinion is composed to be signed by the Local Govt Ministry, the offer is composed in existence.
“One of the beneficiaries of this illegal process is PPC Zimbabwe. It is illegal because Nyikavanhu Housing Cooperative’s offer letter for the same land was never withdrawn,” read the summons.
Per the court docket documents, PPC Zimbabwe presented an offer letter dated February 9, 2024, after being indicted to ensure that it removed billboards that had been erected alongside the property boundary, purporting they owned it.
A Deed of Transfer (No: 6168/2024) from the Sheriff of the Excessive Court, dated March this year, change into later presented by PPC Zimbabwe sooner or later of lawsuits.
“In consequence of PPC Zimbabwe kept on manufacturing documents sooner or later of the court docket application, it changed the complexion of the subject. Nyikavanhu Housing Cooperative abandoned the application and could well well composed apply for the quashing of lawsuits as they had change into meaningless.
“It is clear that this was a calculated and well-coordinated plan to take over land which had already been allocated to the Nyikavanhu Housing Cooperative.”
The excellent holder of the title, which change into cancelled when the land change into gazetted for compulsory acquisition, change into Portland. It change into earmarked for the enlargement of the Robert Gabriel Mugabe World Airport, with an further runway having been location for building.
Since the land had been earmarked for airport enlargement, the federal government had given the Civil Aviation Authority of Zimbabwe (CAAZ) energy to weigh in such circumstances.
Nyikavanhu Housing Cooperative has in its possession a 2011 letter from CAAZ authorising its application to subdivide the leisure of Arlington Estate into residential stands.
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“Please be advised that CAAZ cleared your application and the development should be carried out according to the requirements listed by the Harare City Council Combination Master Plan,” reads the letter dated October 26, 2011 and signed by a P.T Dohwe.
Yet any other letter of red meat up from the Local Govt Ministry, dated November 30, 2010, indicates that Nyikavanhu Housing Cooperative owns the land in quiz and acknowledges it.
“This letter serves to confirm that Nyikavanhu Housing Cooperative is known and recognised by the office of the Governor and Resident Minister and that it is based at Arlington Estate Subdivision E,” reads the letter signed by then Performing District Administrator Godfrey Maeresa.
The same letters, shown to NewZimbabwe.com, receive raised a stink and added weight to Nyikavanhu Housing Cooperative’s allegations that Garwe could well even receive illegally parcelled out the land to PPC Zimbabwe, dragging Mnangagwa into the messy affair.
After Mnangagwa’s presentation of the land, it change into lauded as his imprint of commitment to promoting industrialisation, supporting the non-public sector and attainment of Vision 2030 that seeks to receive remodeled Zimbabwe into an Higher-Heart Profits financial system by then.
Mnangagwa change into presented with 60 tonnes of cement by PPC Zimbabwe on the handover.
