From "Newzimbabw.com": Looks like 1time's new bussiness partner is a real stand up citizen.
A PROJECT fronted by Big Brother star Wendall Parson to fly thousands of school children to the Great Zimbabwe has been halted after the man organising the trips was revealed as a con artist.
Wendall, a trained pilot, was excited after being approached by a company called Nu-Aero, trading as Fresh Air, to fly thousands of kids from around the country to the historic stone monument in Masvingo.
But after just one trip, the flights were halted – dashing the hopes of thousands of kids who looked forward to their first ever flight.
Now Wendall says he was duped by Matipedza Karase – the organiser of the so-called AvTour – into lending his support to the scheme which now threatens to spill into the courts.
Wendall’s mum and manager Gillian Jackson told New Zimbabwe.com on Wednesday that lawyers had been brought in to recover money owed to the 2011 Big Brother Africa winner under a contract signed with Nu-Aero.
She said: “Wendall was duped into thinking this project would benefit thousands of children that would normally never get a chance to fly and visit Great Zimbabwe.
“The idea sold to us was that a chartered plane would fly low over Great Zimbabwe, land and the children would have lunch and spend an hour sightseeing. They would also take pictures with Wendall in the cockpit.
“Wendall was overjoyed that he could interact with the children. Had this project worked according to plan, it would have been a brilliant initiative for the children but it seems Fresh Air thought of no-one but themselves.
“They are villains who have no problem breaking the hearts of children.”
Wendall has appointed Harare lawyer Harrison Nkomo to go after Fresh Air and its founder Karase.
On a Facebook page especially created for the tours, Karase said: “In view of circumstances beyond our jurisdiction and or capacity to influence and control, we reluctantly cannot provide or service the advertised trip to Masvingo and the Great Zimbabwe by air.
“It's not easy to be posting this up, believe me. We have gone to great lengths to avoid it but sometimes not everything we plan for goes the way we expect it to.”
Continuing, he appeared to suggest the tours had been hit by political meddling.
He went on: “Imagine if your organisation was in the process of applying for a licence whilst you are running a certain project and the powers-that-be ask you to stop the projects. You have no choice but to stop.