MKWAJUNI Village Chairman in Makurunge Ward, Bagamoyo District, Mr
Hamisi Mbonde, is under fire over misconduct and public office misuse.
The villagers are pushing for his resignation.
The
villagers reached the decision during a recent meeting which was also
attended by ward councillor, Mr Kabile Paulo. They claimed that their
leader has been misusing money obtained from sales of farm produce,
which they said is against their agreement.
Apart from these allegations, the
villagers also said that their leader has failed to supervise ongoing
development activities including construction of a school which was
supposed to be built using villagers’ money.
In addition to this, they said that
their chairman has failed to convene village meetings for more than five
months. The villagers told their councillor that they reached a
decision to hold a meeting in his presence so that they could express
their problems and challenges which they were facing.
Most of them claimed that the problems
were caused by their chairman who was not cooperative. “He has been
supervising the sales of our crops but surprisingly enough some of the
money which is supposed to be returned and be spent on various
development projects is never remitted.
Instead he has been using it for his own
benefits,” said one villager, Chande Abdallah. Another villager,
Mwajuma Omary, added that since their chairman was elected about seven
years ago, their village has never been able to make any advancement in
development projects
