Prisons boss Zimondi dragged to court
Sunday, 30 October 2011 12:16
BY NQABA MATSHAZI
PRISONS boss, Paradzai Zimondi has been sucked into an ownership wrangle
over a conservancy in Kariba, amid allegations that he was benefitting
financially, despite not being a director or a shareholder.
A retired army colonel, Thomas Ngwenya claims that Zimondi and other
directors of the conservancy, Wesango Safaries, conspired to have him
removed from the list of directors and this has seen him being prejudiced of
dividends since 2004.
In papers filed before the Bulawayo High Court, Ngwenya accuses the Zimbabwe
Prison Service (ZPS) boss of chairing a meeting in October 2009, where a
resolution was passed to recapitalise the company that runs the conservancy,
an agreement which he says is a nullity and void.
Also cited in the court papers are the other directors, Agnes and Epmarcus
Kanhanga, Richard Chingombe and the Registrar of Companies, in a suit where
Ngwenya is demanding US$10 000.
Chingombe is an heir to the estate of Amos Chingombe and Ngwenya charges
that his appointment was unprocedural. The defendants have since entered a
notice to defend.
Ngwenya, who holds a quarter of the shareholding, says he has not received a
dividend for 2004 to 2009 and only received a Mazda twin cab in 2008 as part
of the dividend of that year.
The former military man says he was unprocedurally removed from the director’s
list and this had seen him being prejudiced of an income, despite trying to
solve this, he says, he was forced to approach the courts, as he had not met
any joy.
In this regard, Ngwenya wanted the court to have his directorship restored
and that the Registrar of Companies be compelled to include his name in the
list of directors. He also sought to have the appointment of Chingombe as a
director to be rescinded, as the meeting that named him was unprocedural and
therefore, illegal.
Ngwenya also sought to compel the other directors to release management
accounts, bank statements, financial statements, minute books and annual
returns from 2005 to 2010.