Farirai Machivenyika Senior Reporter
TWO National Association of Non-Governmental Organisations board members have resigned amid intensifying infighting and allegations of abuse of authority against management of the NGOs’ umbrella body. Mr Tichaona Masiyambiri and Mr Sydney Chisi resigned from Nango’s board on Wednesday accusing the organisation’s chairperson, Mr Paul Juru, and chief executive officer Mr Cephas Zinhumwe of dictatorial tendencies, and the unilateral dismissal of four regional co-ordinators under unclear circumstances.

Mr Masiyambiri was the board secretary and Nango Northern Region Youth representative, while Mr Chisi was Nango’s deputy secretary-general.

He is also the director of Youth Alliance for Democracy while Mr Chisi is the director of the Youth Initiative for Democracy in Zimbabwe. “It is with a heavy heart that I write to notify colleagues that in the spirit of representative democracy, which has ceased to exist at Nango where decisions have largely been a preserve for Mr Cephas Zinhumwe and Paul Juru alone, I have been left with no option but to resign,” Mr Masiyambiri said in his resignation letter to Mr Juru that was copied to other Nango members.

He alleged that the board had become “ceremonial” where no alternative views were tolerated.

“The dismissal of regional co-ordinators without the regional boards’ knowledge is a case in mind that unilateral decisions are being made by individual, disregarding the concept of corporate governance which is critical in any institution,” he added.

Nango recently dismissed Mgcinumuzi Mpofu, who was the co-ordinator for the Western Region, Munyaradzi Mataruse (Northern region), Benias Tirivavi (Southern Region) and Vimbai Nhutsve (Midlands).

Mr Chisi said his position as the Northern Region chairperson was being undermined by Mr Juru. The resignation of the two Nango board members comes amid reports that salaries for staff at the Western-funded NGOs umbrella body have been cut by 50 percent due to a decline in donor funding.

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