Attorney General Ordered To Pay Pension Arrears
By Professor Matodzi Harare, May 16, 2012 – Justice Nicholas Mathonsi has
ordered the country’s Attorney-General, Johannes Tomana, to pay more than $4
260 to National Social Security Authority (NSSA) as payment for allegedly
defaulting on remitting workers’ pension contributions.
Court papers seen by Radio VOP, said Tomana, who owns Maryland farm in
Darwendale, in President Robert Mugabe’s home province of Mashonaland West,
did not remit workers’ pension contributions from April 2010 to August
2011.NSSA said such evasion was in contravention of the NSSA Act.
“The defendant (Tomana) refuses, avoids and or neglected to settle the
amount notwithstanding written demand by plaintiff (NSSA) and dated 7th of
October 2011,” reads part of NSSA’s declaration against Tomana.
Apart from Tomana, NSSA has also sued Munyaradzi Kereke, the former advisor
to central bank governor Gideon Gono, former Mashonaland West Governor
Nelson Samukange who owns Rukoba Farm in Banket, Local Government, Rural and
Urban Development Minister Ignatius Chombo, Air Zimbabwe, the Zimbabwe
Broadcasting Corporation and its reporter Reuben Barwe, who runs a farm in
Norton over unpaid pension contributions.