via ZBC ordered to pay Muchechetere $2m – NewsDay Zimbabwe March 27, 2015
The Zimbabwe Broadcasting Corporation (ZBC) faces a liability of close to $2 million after former chief executive officer Happison Muchechetere won his arbitration case against the State broadcaster.
BY SILENCE CHARUMBIRA
Muchechetere was awarded his full salary and benefits dating back to November 2013 when he was sent on forced leave.
Before he was sent on leave, Muchechetere earned about $40 000 a month in salary and allowances.
His lawyer Lovemore Madhuku yesterday said Muchechetere would get all his money as his earnings were lawful.
“They (ZBC) were asked to pay his salary from the time he was sent on forced leave. He was earning a lawful salary and he will get that in full,” said Madhuku.
Muchechetere said he was surprised that before the results from the hearing were out, the Ministry of Information, Media and Broadcasting Services was already making other allegations.
“We went for a hearing and we have not been told of the outcome and I am surprised they are making fresh allegations. I did not receive any paper and I am only learning of the lawsuit from newspapers. I do not have a single paper notifying me of that,” Muchechetere said.
“It is more than two years now since I was sent on forced leave and I have not received anything so I am supposed to get my salary and benefits.”
Muchechetere said the ministry was trying to harass him after failing to prove a case against him.
“It is more than two years now and they are just coming after me. I do not know what this guy [Information Minister Jonathan Moyo] has against me. All this hullabaloo is unnecessary for me and the corporation,” he said.
“I have nothing against anyone and they should just leave these matters to rest because there is no case. No one else has said anything about this matter from the former minister and board, but only the current minister. I do not know what he wants me to do. Maybe just drop dead and he will be happy.”
Muchechetere said the $58 million suit that was published in a local daily was largely a ploy to keep delaying processes.
COMMENTS
Just deduct the $2 million from current ZBC employees salaries and give it to Happison.
There is definitely something wrong with this country. How can a poor country like ours pay such obscene salaries to employees of unproductive companies like the ZBC? It just shows that we have leadership that has no sense of proportion. No wonder the economy is on its knees. “Cry the Beloved Country “.
I’m flabbergasted. Madhuku represents a man earning such an obscene salary awarded in clearly obscene circumstances by an equally obscene board of directors and still stands up to claim he is a champion of democracy! So you see how President Mugabe, hate him or like him, always emerges the winner! How many times has he castigated this Madhuku lot as moneymongers? Count for me, folks. So at the end of it all it’s the ordinary Zimbabwean who goes home bruised and hungry.
I’m flabbergasted.Which Lovemore Madhuku are we talking about here? If it is what I think, then here is my piece : He represents a man earning such an obscene salary awarded in clearly obscene circumstances by an equally obscene board of directors and still stands up to claim he is a champion of democracy! So you see how President Mugabe, hate him or like him, always emerges the winner! How many times has he castigated this Madhuku lot as moneymongers? Count for me, folks. So at the end of it all it’s the ordinary Zimbabwean who goes home bruised and hungry.