Harare — A KWEKWE consultancy firm has accused sungura musician Tongai Moyo of failing to pay them US$240 for services rendered.

But Moyo said he was unaware of the debt, whose file at the Zimbabwe Revenue Authority office was said to be missing at the time of going to press.

Integrated Consultancy Company has obtained a court order from the Kwekwe Magistrate Civil court to attach Tongai's household property.

But Tongai is yet to be served with the order by the messenger of court.

Owner of the company, Tichaona Gora said yesterday they did Tongai's 2008 financial statements for the Zimbabwe Revenue Authority in March this year.

He said the total cost for the statements was US$240 and Moyo had not paid a cent, which led them to seek justice at the courts.

"We are his (Tongai's) bookkeepers and we do all his financial statements to submit to Zimra," he said.

Gora said after contacting Tongai on several occasions and failing to meet as agreed, they decided to go to court on May 13.

"We gave him one week to pay up or else we would attach his property. But one week passed and he did not show up," he said.

On June 3, Gora said the courts gave a judgement against Moyo, that he defaulted on the payment, before issuing a warrant of execution against his property, which is still pending.

Moyo said he was not aware of the debt as he had not been informed that the consultancy had already submitted the financial statements to Zimra since there was no evidence of that, until yesterday.

He said in recent years, before the statements were submitted, the company would first provide him with a copy of the document so that he would sign, but this time he had not seen any.

This had resulted in the confusion.

"I visited them (Zimra officials) today (yesterday) and talked to one of their senior officials. Their records show that Gora submitted the financial statements, but they cannot be located in the file. The problem is now with Zimra officials to find those financial statements," he said.

Moyo said the way forward was to pay Gora his money and he had "no problem with that".

"I have been working well with him for almost five years now. He has been doing the work for us," he said.

Meanwhile, the sungura musician said his shows outside the country were paying dividends as most of his recent shows in Johannesburg were sold out.

"We played at different venues in Jo-burg, including Safari and Flamingo Hotels and the response was overwhelming.

"We were supposed to return on the first week of July but we have some shows lined up in Botswana from where we will proceed to South Africa where we are scheduled to perform at different venues."