Zimbabwe: Chanakira`s Meikles job saved by riot police
source: SW Radio Africa
By Violet Gonda
24 September 2009
The specification of Kingdom Meikles Africa Limited took a new twist on Thursday when riot police blocked the company’s shareholders from meeting to decide on the future of the group’s CEO Nigel Chanakira. The shareholders arrived at the Meikles Hotel at 10am but found the doors of the conference room locked and guarded by riot police.
The Chairman of the company John Moxon, told SW Radio Africa that Chanakira’s wife delivered a court order, on behalf of her husband, barring the members from meeting. He said Chanakira is in hospital in South Africa.
Moxon, speaking from South Africa, said the shareholders had called for a meeting to remove Chanakira and his close associates, Callistus Chikonye and Busi Bango. He said the board had resolved they were to be removed from any of the subsidiary boards of the company. “They were to be removed because the board felt that they were obstructing the [continue reading]

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