BY JAMES MUTASA

Stanley Kanoyangwa cries foul after his allegedly former employer Creative Itel Technology whom he had sued for underpayments, non payment of salaries and unfair dismissal refuted the claim arguing that he was he was never its employee.

Kanoyangwa who claimed that he was employed by Creative Itel as a messenger in 2019, told The Worker that he was arrested together with his co-worker one Lloyd Mudiwa on allegation of stealing two boxes which contains 50 cellphone handsets per box.

Kanoyangwa who was eventually cleared by the magistrate court for any wrong doing only after he spent over 3 months in a remind prison in custody on theft allegation approached the National Union of Metal and Allied Industries in Zimbabwe through its electronics sector to for compensation for the loss of employment.

Henry Tarumbira, the General Secretary of NUMAIZ said that when he called Creative Itel Technology director Amos Mupuri he was told that Kanoyangwa was never employed by his company in fact, he was only a vendor who was hired here and there to deliver our goods and we paid here on the basis of the task which he had performed.

But a Tinashe Makina who was mandated by Creative Itel board of directors to represent the company in legal proceedings initiated before the court of the law contradicted the company position.

“I do know the accused, Stanley Kanoyangwa and Lloyd Mudiwa not only in connection of this case but they are my employees,” reads part of Makina’s statement report to the police under RRB 6385732.

‘‘The statement by Makina at the police station indeed shows that Kanoyangwa was an employee of Creative Itel Technology and for that matter the employer needs to do a honourable thing and compensate their former employee for unjust loss of employment.

Failure of which will see us referring the matter to the national employment council for redress,’ Tarumbira said.