{"id":423172,"date":"2011-05-12T19:43:55","date_gmt":"2011-05-12T19:43:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/2011\/05\/12\/police-refuse-to-investigate-chombo-land-corruption\/"},"modified":"2011-05-12T19:43:55","modified_gmt":"2011-05-12T19:43:55","slug":"police-refuse-to-investigate-chombo-land-corruption","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/05\/12\/police-refuse-to-investigate-chombo-land-corruption\/","title":{"rendered":"Police Refuse to Investigate Chombo Land Corruption"},"content":{"rendered":"<div readability=\"38.343495935\">\n<hr class=\"thin clear\" \/>\n<hr class=\"thin clear\" \/>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.swradioafrica.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">SW Radio Africa<\/a> (London)<\/p>\n<p>Tererai Karimakwenda<\/p>\n<p>12 May 2011<\/p>\n<hr class=\"thin clear\" \/>\n<p>The Elected Councillors Association of Zimbabwe (ECAZ) has revealed that the police in Harare are refusing to open criminal dockets in the land corruption case against local government Minister Ignatius Chombo and several ZANU PF officials. Dockets in other land cases have disappeared from police files.<\/p>\n<p>Councillor Worship Dumba told SW Radio Africa that they approached the police on Tuesday with &#8220;documentary evidence&#8221; of the fraudulent land deals, but no docket has been opened.<\/p>\n<p>Chombo and senior officials in ZANU PF have acquired large tracts of land around Harare for very little money and they&#8217;ve used various illegal means to get the land. Chombo himself is considered one of the wealthiest property owners in Zimbabwe but suspicion was raised when a list of his assets was made public during a nasty divorce case last year.<\/p>\n<p>Harare councillors who investigated the minister&#8217;s land deals, including Dumba, were illegally fired by Chombo, leading to the formation of ECAZ. The group want an investigation and prosecution of Chombo and the others who awarded themselves land fraudulently. But the police refuse to cooperate.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The police told us the land is not ours and we have no legal standing to order the investigation,&#8221; Councillor Dumba said, adding that as representatives of all elected councillors in Zimbabwe they do have that authority. Dumba said ECAZ had also written to the Attorney General&#8217;s office, informing them of the police refusal to investigate. But there has been no answer or action taken so far.<\/p>\n<p>The Elected Councillors, along with the Combined Harare Residents Association (CHRA), last week filed a complaint against the city&#8217;s director of urban planning, Psychology Chiwanga, whom they accused of assisting Minister Chombo with the illegal purchase of land in Glen Lorne. But on Tuesday police at Harare Central station said the docket could not be found.<\/p>\n<p>Councillor Dumba conceded there was not much more the group can do because the police have been applying the law selectively, arresting only MDC officials and supporters.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<fieldset>\n<legend align=\"center\"><strong>More News on allAfrica.com<\/strong><\/legend>\n<\/fieldset>\n<p>AllAfrica &#8211; All the Time<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<\/div>\n<\/p>\n<p>Read More:<br \/>\n<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/201105121190.html\" title=\"Police Refuse to Investigate Chombo Land Corruption\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Police Refuse to Investigate Chombo Land Corruption<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> SW Radio Africa (London) Tererai Karimakwenda 12 May 2011 The Elected Councillors Association of Zimbabwe (ECAZ) has revealed that the police in Harare are refusing to open criminal dockets in the land corruption case against local government Minister Ignatius Chombo and several ZANU PF officials. Dockets in other land cases have disappeared from police files. Councillor Worship Dumba told SW Radio Africa that they approached the police on Tuesday with &#8220;documentary evidence&#8221; of the fraudulent land deals, but no docket has been opened. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-423172","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Police Refuse to Investigate Chombo Land Corruption - Ghanamma.com<\/title>\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.ghanamma.com\/2011\/05\/12\/police-refuse-to-investigate-chombo-land-corruption\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Police Refuse to Investigate Chombo Land Corruption - Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"SW Radio Africa (London) Tererai Karimakwenda 12 May 2011 The Elected Councillors Association of Zimbabwe (ECAZ) has revealed that the police in Harare are refusing to open criminal dockets in the land corruption case against local government Minister Ignatius Chombo and several ZANU PF officials. 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