A fire that gutted the Guruve Rural District Council’s Planning Office last Thursday has sparked suspicion, following the discovery of what appeared to be remnants of explosives at the scene, raising suspicion of a potential cover-up.
According to the Zimbabwe Republic Police, the CID Forensic Unit attended the site and recovered two used power fuse cable remnants from behind the Planning Office block.
Mashonaland Central Minister of State for Provincial Affairs and Devolution, Christopher Magomo, who visited the scene, told ZBC News that the office destroyed by the fire housed all council records. He said:
We have encountered a challenge that has shocked us, the office were all the records in Guruve were kept were destroyed be they housing projects, plans etc, but the police are looking closely into this matter to ensure these malcontents are brought to book, if we continue to have such behaviour we will not get anywhere regards development.
Guruve Rural District Council Chairperson, Alderman Fadson Mandaza, said that the planning office housed all records related to the sale, allocation, and ownership of stands. He lamented:
We thought perhaps it was electricity, the planning office was burnt and it was really razed down, so the police are looking into this, we really hope the people who did this are caught.
The local authority is worried that planning operations will be disrupted following the destruction of two desktop computers and a laptop in the fire.
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