Barely a few weeks after losing a client’s money in spectacular schoolboy fashion in a money heist that suggested their management is all thumbs, Fawcett’s Security company has seen the floundering of one of their court cases against a former client.
A case against Forbes and Thompson, where Fawcetts Security sought to drag the mining giant into corporate rescue over a measly USD 170,000 debt has not gone as flaeless as they had anticipated leaving a handful of their allies who work for the firm with egg on their faces.
Having promised a quick in and out and a walk in El Dorado should they take over a mine in Gwanda. some workers who had colluded with the company to coerce fellow workers to sign a petition against their employers in exchange for 10 kiligrams of mealie-meal has now been withdrawn from the roll to allow for the hearing of a joinery application.
The company filed a formal notice of application to join as Duration Gold Limited which also offered to settle the amount in full including costs.
The former client had previously proposed to settle immediately, with Fawcetts refusing their money in what has made the case and their intetions look remarkably dodgy.
However, no one is more upset than a cabal of foot soldiers they had been using in their cause, who are now not only abandoned like church mice after being promised crumbs, but they now have to live in a community that is upset as their actions have caused progress between the emplopyer and othjer creditors and employees to be stalled pending finalisation of the vase which the company calls spurious at best.
“They use an old guy here at the mine who has failed to make something of himself and has nothing to show for his many years of service, one Visitor Gumbo, and a Sifelani Nkomo, both of whom were made to lead the crusade against their own employer from the front. Now that the case is in limbo they have been left out to dry,” said a source.
Fawcett’s Security, a traditional security company founded by Rhodesians, The Fawcett family, was in the news recently after five armed robbers pounced on their employees and made away with US$111,000.
Five suspects were arrested after investigations revealed there was inside information provided to the robbers, aiding them in their heist.
