FIRED NetOne chief executive officer Reward Kangai has once again filed an urgent application at the High Court challenging termination of his contract on notice. Kangai is now seeking an order to compel his former paymasters to proceed with a disciplinary hearing against him instead.
BY CHARLES LAITON
The former NetOne boss, who was served with a letter of termination on October 12, said NetOne chairperson Alex Marufu had acted without board authority when he fired him.
“Having so filed my court application, I was shocked to receive two letters dated 12th of October 2016 from respondent’s (NetOne) chairperson (Marufu). The one letter purported to withdraw the charges against me: the second terminated my employment on three months’ notice,” Kangai said.
“Upon receipt of the above letters, I voiced my objection to the legality of the respondent’s actions. One of the points I made then, which I make now, was that the respondent’s chairperson had acted without any board authority in terminating me.”
He further charged: “It is clear that I am a victim. Respondent assails me. I take issue with the course taken. The withdrawal of the charges is incompetent and indeed invalid. The notice of termination that ensued is also invalid. In taking this position, I have considered several issues.”
Kangai also said he was still insisting that NetOne should proceed with the hearing so as to give him the platform to respond to the allegations levelled against him, which without the hearing, the world would never come know the truth about what happened at the parastatal.
“Respondent (NetOne) told the whole world a slanderous and damaging story about me. It said I am a thief, a crook and a liar. The story is on the Internet. It is everywhere. The Internet continues to tell that story. It will continue to do so until the return of the Son of Man. The story has become eternal. The world will hear it long after I am dead,” he said.
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“Respondent was convinced in the truth of that story. That is why it told that damaging story to everyone in the first place. That is why it guaranteed the immortality of that story. Respondent also knew what effect that story would have on my name and career. It would destroy me. Everything would be lost. The world knows the narrative and account given by respondent. It has no reason to not believe in its truth.”
Kangai said NetOne had asked him to respond to an audit report because it knew he had a right to response.
“It is important to point out at any rate that the withdrawal of a matter does not terminate proceedings. What terminates proceedings is the acceptance of that withdrawal by the other party thereto. I do not accept respondent’s purported withdrawal. I insist on the perpetuation of that process to its legally defined finality,” Kangai said.
NetOne is yet to respond to the application.
