NetOne has allegedly spent over $20 million RTGS in legal costs alone as they pursue their warfare to chuck Muchenje out, a close source has revealed. The costs have been incurred from March this year with court challenges presently either in the supreme, high or magistrate courts, all to achieve one thing – Muchenje’s ouster. This has reflected badly as poor corporate governance where all involved parties must have simply closed their doors, aired their differences and find each other or should have just calculated an exit package for Muchenje to calm the storm. It has become apparent that Muchenje is no longer wanted at NetOne and must go at all costs, even after dropping the charges against him. Sources close to the developments however state that Muchenje is guilty of frustrating the return of ZTE at NetOne, a lucrative deal which its handlers will not rest till he is gone. The biggest question that motivated this article, however, is to what end are these handlers willing to go and how much more will they spend to see Muchenje gone? More importantly, whose money is paying for these costs? NetOne is a public company and Zimbabweans have a say in how they are spending our money. Just between May and July at least five urgent chamber applications were done as the legal warfares soared. A matter they could just have settled in the absence of public eye. The matter has destroyed NetOne’s reputation, tried to soil the judge’s name, damaged Muchenje’s character, forced 5 board members to resign, got 3 board members arrested, caused 3 executives to be fired 7 employees arrested, and more names will be on the list if they continue on this treacherous path. NetOne has engaged five different law firms with Advocate Eric Matinenga dealing specifically with the High Court challenges on illegal and unlawful dismissal of Muchenje while word on the street state that his minimum charges per appearance is nothing short of USD$3 000. He is allegedly appeared more than four times which is a minimum of USD$12 000 or ZWL$1 200 000 RTGS in local currency. Justice Chinhengo was also appointed to deal with Labour and disciplinary issues since March 2, 2020 to date. He is the one representing NetOne on the case of refusal to give Board minutes to the police as well as procurement documents. NetOne board members in happy times.. To date the police officers have been denied this information, because NetOne board challenged the cause instead of simply being transparent. Another Law firm Kuhuni and Associates is also acting at the High Court over illegal disciplinary hearing with huge costs of continuous appearance which we are yet to independently ascertain. They are also appearing at the magistrate courts for Criminal charges against the CEO. Gill Godlonton and Gerrans were hired as well for the High Court over illegal disciplinary and termination of employment. Another law firm Mhishi and Nkomo are appearing at the magistrate courts for criminal charges, which are not dropped at court. All these five law firms were selected by whatever me