Former Arts, Sport and Culture minister Andrew Langa has been ordered to vacate a rented house at Insiza Rural District Council after accumulating an unpaid rental bill of $8 000 since 2004.
Council chairperson, Daniel Mpofu said the local authority decided to take legal action after Langa allegedly refused to vacate the house arguing that he made some improvements on it. Last Friday, Esigodini magistrate Tawanda Muchemwa confirmed a deed of settlement signed by the two parties, which ordered Langa to vacate the property by August 31 this year, pay the arrears, legal costs and interest at the rate of 5% per annum.
Langa had his earlier rental debt of $19 000 written off by then Local Government minister Ignatius Chombo on a ministerial order. He, however, allegedly abandoned paying the rentals again which then accumulated to the current $8 800, prompting the council to take him to court.
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