BDC entangled in Toro Lodge lease controversy
Friday, January 10, 2014
Mamase Investments were in 2011 contracted by BDC to lease Toro Safari lodge after the corporation bought it for P22 million.
According to the owner of Mamase Investments, Jacob Masima, the lease was unclear and was terminated by BDC without his knowledge last year purportedly on the instruction of the lodge’s general manager, Moses Sichembe.
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