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This comes at a time when he reportedly surrendered his official vehicle’s keys to the party offices on Thursday last week.
Party provincial members said Cde Dakamela allegedly abused about $6 000 which was sent from the party headquarters to cover Bulawayo City Council debts and an additional $3 000 which was meant for the province to prepare for Copac activities.
However, Cde Dakamela denied the allegations in an interview yesterday at the party provincial headquarters, Davies Hall, saying the records of payment were there in Harare.

Some members maintained that Cde Dakamela was suspended for his lack of transparency.
“The issue of lack of transparency had gone for a long time dating back to the time when about $6 000 that was meant to pay council debts was abused.
“There was also $3 000 which was meant for use in Copac activities but he announced that the money had been paid to council yet council records showed that no money was paid. We even have printouts,” said a member.

Provincial members said they were surprised to see that the offices owed the council a huge debt when some money had been sent from Harare to clear the debt.
They said according to the printouts, there was no record of a huge amount paid to the council since 2009.
Davies Hall has an outstanding debt that has been accumulating since 2009, amounting to $14 000.
Party members said Cde Dakamela did not execute his duties as expected.

However, Cde Dakamela denied the allegations of financial impropriety saying: “When the $6 000 came, that was the time when Cde Charles Chiponda was acting treasurer and it was used to pay council, Zesa and TelOne debts. This issue was talked about and they are just raising it now. The receipts are there in Harare they can check.”

He said the $3 000 which members said was sent for Copac never came and there was no money to talk about.
“We did not receive the $3 000, we were using our own money then,” said Cde Dakamela.
Provincial members also alleged that Cde Dakamela would make his own decisions and impose them on the province, which they said led to disgruntlement in the party.

It is alleged provincial members felt that they had no input on issues happening in the province.
“He was asked to call a meeting as the chairman but he did not. This is why the Central Committee had to write him a letter to summon him to last Sunday’s meeting which he dishonoured by walking out. To the province, that alone is lack of respect, insubordination and defiance,” said another member.

The party’s Provincial Coordinating Committee (PCC) suspended Cde Dakamela on Sunday last week after passing a vote of no confidence in him at a meeting attended by about 100 members, 14 of them Central Committee members.
The meeting was held at Davies Hall.

Last week the party’s Politburo resolved that Cde Dakamela’s fate be solved by his province.
Contacted for comment, National Chairman Cde Simon Khaya Moyo said the National Political Commissar Cde Webster Shamu was handling the case.
On Thursday, Cde Dakamela said the Politburo had referred the matter back to the province because it was a minor issue.

He said he would also wait for party leaders to map the way forward.
“I have not been informed about anything yet but the fact that it was referred back means that it is a minor issue that we can resolve amicably as a province. We are waiting to hear from the elders,” he said.

Cde Dakamela said “the choice is theirs as the province to decide on the issue”.
In an interview last week, Central Committee member, Cde Molly Mpofu said it was most appropriate that the province resolve its own issues.
She said once the province decides to hold a meeting, Cde Dakamela should also attend so that both parties explain to the Central Committee.

Meanwhile, the party Secretary for Education, Dr Sikhanyiso Ndlovu, yesterday called for an urgent informal meeting with Politburo and Central Committee members where he requested their brief on the previous meeting.
A number of them attended but Dr Ndlovu and Cde Dakamela left the meeting early and unconfirmed reports said they walked out of the meeting after those in attendance said Cde Dakamela could not attend.

They left the party offices on foot going to a vehicle that was parked along Basch Street, just behind the offices.
In an interview, Dr Ndlovu said the meeting was an informal meeting in preparation for the coming of Cde Shamu.
“I wanted to have an appreciation of the previous meeting because I did not attend. We convened an informal meeting and I am leaving because I have been briefed on what happened in the last meeting as we wait for the Political Commissar,” he said.

The officials who attended the ‘informal’ meeting declined to comment on the proceedings stating that they were not the party’s provincial spokespersons.