{"id":3763,"date":"2024-08-13T09:24:55","date_gmt":"2024-08-13T09:24:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zimgbcnews.co.zw\/?p=3763"},"modified":"2024-08-13T09:24:59","modified_gmt":"2024-08-13T09:24:59","slug":"zanu-pf-official-embroiled-in-timber-theft-scandal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/zimgbcnews.co.zw\/?p=3763","title":{"rendered":"Zanu-PF Official Embroiled in Timber Theft Scandal"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><br>Political Correspondent<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A top Zanu-PF official in Manicaland is facing trouble for allegedly stealing thousands of dollars&#8217; worth of timber from Allied Timbers in Chimanimani.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;We do not work with thieves, and that is the reason we terminated his contract,&#8221; said Remigio Nenzou, CEO of Allied Timbers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Law Tiengane, the managing director of Climb Harder Private Limited, had his contract with Allied Timbers terminated due to the alleged theft.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to a letter of termination, Allied Timbers discovered discrepancies in the tally workbook and purchased logs invoice register, indicating under-declared and unrecorded volumes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;This constitutes a clear violation of the terms and conditions outlined in the contract,&#8221; the letter reads.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Tiengane was accused of stealing 192.21 cubic meters of pine logs between November 29, 2023, and April 29 this year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;The under-declaration and un-recorded volumes directly contravene the Allied Timber Zimbabwe standard operating procedures, and such actions are unacceptable and detrimental to the business between our companies,&#8221; the letter states.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Allied Timbers terminated the contract due to the severity of the actions and the breach of trust.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Therefore, we advise that the contract agreement between ourselves has been terminated with immediate effect,&#8221; the letter concludes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Tiengane refused to comment on the matter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Zim GBC News\u00a92024<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Political Correspondent A top Zanu-PF official in Manicaland is facing trouble for allegedly stealing thousands of dollars&#8217; worth of timber from Allied Timbers in Chimanimani. &#8220;We do not work with&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3764,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[109],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3763","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/zimgbcnews.co.zw\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3763","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/zimgbcnews.co.zw\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/zimgbcnews.co.zw\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/zimgbcnews.co.zw\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/zimgbcnews.co.zw\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3763"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/zimgbcnews.co.zw\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3763\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3765,"href":"http:\/\/zimgbcnews.co.zw\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3763\/revisions\/3765"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/zimgbcnews.co.zw\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3764"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/zimgbcnews.co.zw\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3763"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/zimgbcnews.co.zw\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3763"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/zimgbcnews.co.zw\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3763"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}