MIDWEEK REPORTER
MASVINGO-A nasty fight is looming at the Municipality run Rujeko Primary School as the old School Development Committee is at loggerheads with the head over their outstanding allowances.
According to information gathered by The Midweek Watch the new committee led by Mr. Mamvura which was elected on February 25 this year has not had a handover takeover from the old one which was led by Patience Mapfumo due to outstanding sitting allowances.
“The old committee is being accused of being too forward and they are being punished for that, they have not received their sitting allowances for the past year due to unexplained reasons and one of them is that they are alleged to be very stubborn,” said a source who attended the AGM in February.
Efforts to get a comment from Alec Tabe the school’s head were fruitless as he would claim to be busy until the time of going to Press.
The committee that was voted out had Mapfumo as the chairperson, Wisdom Matanga, Rebecca Mutambara, Michael Chinyunyu and Mr Zinyama who resigned before the end of their term of office.
When contacted for a comment the immediate past chairperson, Mapfumo said it was unfair for the head to withhold their allowances especially for some of them who are struggling to make ends as they had to close their market stalls in order to attend to school business only to be denied what rightfully belongs to them.
“Some of us are not employed and we rely on self-jobs which we stopped doing whenever there are school meetings, now we are being treated like rugs after religiously serving the school,” said a bitter Mapfumo.
She wondered why the headmaster was not willing to do a proper handover of bank accounts signatories and all other books so that they are cleared before they officially step down.
“They should convene a meeting where we handover everything that has to do with our committee so that nobody will turn around and say we misappropriated funds, everything should be done in a transparent manner.
“They should give us our dues and we relinquish the bank accounts signatories and if they continue like this we are definitely going to report them to the provincial director,” said Mapfumo.
When The Midweek visited the school last week, the new committee was conducting interviews for Basic Education Assistance Module beneficiaries although no official hand over was done.
Mapfumo is the one who signed for the Garde 7 examinations fees payment to ZIMSEC last week implying that there are two parallel SDC structures at the school.
