A magistrate has granted a protection order against former Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe governor Dr Gideon Gono who wanted to evict a Mutare co...
A magistrate has granted a protection order against former
Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe governor Dr Gideon Gono who wanted to evict a Mutare
college owner.
Dr Nongerai Moses Makurumidze, who runs a sports science
and research college at the Natvest Industrial Complex rents the premises from
Dr Gono. He dragged Dr Gono, Clark Makoni and fellow tenants —Mbonje, Dzobo,
Matoko, Tambara, Mujeke and Chigondowa — to the courts last week seeking a
protection order.
Dr Gono and Makoni were in default while the other
respondents were in attendance. Dr Makurumidze said Dr Gono was leasing the
Natvest property to him for his sports college but was letting his other
tenants to evict him without any legal procedures.
“Your Worship, I had an agreement with Dr Gono. He was
initially leasing the property to me but they are now ignoring the original
agreement and are trying to evict me without any legal procedures. We are in
the process of setting up a proposed university of sport and they all know it
but his workers terrorise my clients and staff.
“They use the other buildings at Natvest but they disrupt
my business on a daily basis. They take out the college’s property and lock the
doors, claiming that it was Dr Gono who evicted me and they are just following
orders. They damage the furniture in the process, causing a loss to the
business,” he said.
In response, Chigondowa told the court that Dr Makurumidze
had already been evicted by Dr Gono and that he was lying to the court.
“He was evicted by Dr Gono, Your Worship, but he keeps
coming back. It was not us who removed his property from the building but he
was evicted by the owner of the building, and we wonder why he has even cited
us as respondents when we are just workers,” he said.
The Manica Post reports that the magistrate granted the
protection order to Dr Makurumidze against Dr Gono and the rest of the
respondents.
She ordered them not to interfere with his business, not to
harass him or his workers, not to throw his furniture out of the building and
not to try and evict him unlawfully.
“He has an agreement with Dr Gono, and since you say that
the buildings belong to him, then only Dr Gono can evict him, only Dr Gono can
make the court eviction application to evict him. Therefore, go and live
peacefully,” she advised them.
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