'Garbage Leslie' kicked out

'Garbage Leslie' kicked out

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By Staff Reporter

THE Commission running the affairs of the city of Harare has suspended local government minister, Ignatius Chombo’s blue eyed boy, Leslie Gwindi for absenteeism.

Town Clerk, Nomutsa Chideya said Gwindi, the commission’s acting director of waste management who was until recently its spokesperson, would be hauled before a disciplinary committee in due course.

Following Gwindi’s takeover of the waste management portfolio, rubbish has been piling up in Harare, a development that has partially been blamed on the spread of Cholera that has claimed up to 11 lives in the capital city.

Mbare Musika market was also closed, leaving hundreds of vendors and traders stranded as the city fathers tried to clear garbage that had gone uncollected for months at the popular market.

In 2003 the Harare council, then under MDC mayor Elias Mudzuri suspended Gwindi on misconduct allegations, but he was muscled back into office by Chombo following the sacking of the opposition mayor.

The minister also co-opted him as a member of seven witnesses who submitted damning allegations to a hearing tasked to investigate Mudzuri.

The committee chaired by Harare lawyer Johannes Tomana went on to recommend the mayor’s sacking.

Sources said Wednesday that Chombo was likely to intervene to save Gwindi the chop.
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