Munashe
Masiyiwa,
a
socio-economic
justice
campaigner,
filed
an
application
at
Harare
High
Court
on
10
October
2024
and
cited
ZACC
and
NSSA
as
respondents.
In
the
application,
Masiyiwa,
who
is
represented
by Obey
Shava of Zimbabwe
Lawyers
for
Human
Rights,
stated
that
he
learnt
through
perusing
the
Auditor-General’s
annual
report
for
2023
on
State-Owned
Enterprises
and
Parastatals,
that
NSSA
had
in
2003
purchased
a
property
in
Chegutu
in
Mashonaland
West
province
as
part
of
its
fund
investments
under
some
murky
circumstances,
which
transaction
he
wants
ZACC
to
investigate
as
part
of
its
constitutional
mandate.
According
to
Masiyiwa,
the
Auditor-General’s
annual
report,
revealed
that
NSSA
had
not
recovered
526
hectares
of
land
purchased
in
Chegutu
in
2003.
The
socio-economic
justice
campaigner,
protested
that
NSSA
neither
responded
nor
initiated
investigations
as
he
had
demanded
in
his
letter
written
to
the
state-run
pension
fund
on
25
July
2024,
where
he
asked
it
to
investigate
the
circumstances
surrounding
the
purchase
of
526
hectares
of
land
in
Chegutu
in
2003,
which
land
has
not
yet
been
recovered
by
NSSA.
This
Masiyiwa
said,
prompted
him
to
file
an
application
at
Harare
High
Court
on
10
October
2024
requesting
ZACC,
which
he
said
is
legally
mandated
to
investigate
matters
of
public
interest
and
take
remedial
action
where
necessary,
to
investigate
the
circumstances
pertaining
to
the
purchase
of
the
land
by
NSSA,
which
he
described
as
a
delinquent
institution,
and
make
its
findings
public.
Masiyiwa
said
ZACC’s
inaction
in
the
face
of
reasonable
suspicion
of
corruption
is
an
egregious
dereliction
of
duty,
which
entitles
him
to
petition
the
High
Court
seeking
an
order
to
compel
the
anti-corruption
agency,
to
discharge
its
constitutionally
prescribed
obligation.
Masiyiwa
argued
that
ZACC,
whose
obligation
is
to
combat
corruption
in
instances
where
a
complaint
and
request
for
investigation
has
been
disregarded,
failed
to
discharge
its
obligation
to
investigate
the
circumstances
surrounding
the
purchase
of
526
hectares
of
land
in
Chegutu
in
2003,
which
land
has
not
yet
been
recovered
by
NSSA.
The
socio-economic
justice
campaigner,
wants
the
High
Court
to
declare
that
ZACC’s
failure
to
act
upon
his
complaint
or
to
investigate
the
circumstances
surrounding
the
acquisition
of
the
piece
of
land
in
Chegutu
measuring
526
hectares
by
NSSA
to
be
a
breach
of
section
255(1)
of
the
Constitution.
He
also
wants
the
High
Court
to
direct
ZACC
to
investigate
the
acquisition
of
the
piece
of
land
in
Chegutu
measuring
526
hectares
by
NSSA.
In
addition,
Masiyiwa,
wants
the
High
Court
to
direct
ZACC
to
make
public
within
30
days,
the
findings
of
its
investigations
into
the
acquisition
of
the
piece
of
land
in
Chegutu
measuring
526
hectares
by
NSSA.
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