KWEKWE — A private school, Alletta Primary, which opened its doors to the public this year, is facing collapse over unpaid debts which have seen the Deputy Sheriff knocking on the school’s doors.
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The school, owned by Zanu PF special interest councilor for Redcliff Freddy Kapuya, had its furniture attached over adebt for building material and labour.
Legal firm Gonese and Partners on behalf of its unnamed clients in court case number 84/13 also attached laptops, office furniture and a generator over an $18 000 debt which was due in January.
Kapuya’s personal property, including an unregistered Audi vehicle, water bowser used for storing water for the school and furniture from his personal office, were also attached by the Messenger of Court on March 19.
Lawyer Caroline Mugabe representing the legal firm confirmed that Kapuya, through his school, owed her client, but has been failing to pay since January.
“Following a ruling under case 84/13 at the civil court we have attached school furniture and other property belonging to Kapuya over the debt and if his company fails to settle the debt, the property will go under the hammer so that our client can recover his money,” Mugabe said.
Mugabe obtained a writ of execution from Kwekwe Provincial Magistrate Primrose Nyika on March 11 with consent by Kapuya’s lawyers allowing the Deputy Sheriff to attach the property.
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Easy Terms Building, through their lawyer James Magodora, are also claiming$5 230 from the school after Kapuya failed to pay the construction company for building the school.
Sources close to the school, which has an enrolment of 30 pupils from Grade 1-4, told NewsDay that: “Some of them (debtors) have not yet taken us to court, but we are failing to meet most of our debtsbecause the school has run out of cash. We need to build a new school blockfor Grade Fives next year and yet we are yet to service debts owed to localfinancial institutions.”
Repeated efforts to get comment from Kapuya were fruitless as employeessaid he was in Taiwan on a businesstrip, but refused to release his contact details.
