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City councilors demand clarity about Christoph Manjura’s previous employment with the AWO
Whether the head of the social affairs department, Christoph Manjura (SPD), had a bogus employment relationship with the Wiesbadener Arbeiterwohlfahrt (AWO) during his time as a city councilor, this question has not yet been answered for the members of the city’s revision committee. In their opinion, the questions from the CDU, FDP and Wiesbaden citizens ‘list to the magistrate and the workers’ welfare organization were not adequately answered. Manjura was unable to provide any further information to the Revision Committee meeting because he had apologized about a family illness. Now the city councilors are demanding clarification from Mayor Gert-Uwe Mende (SPD).
Was there a job description? Has his working time been recorded? Is there written evidence that he has worked something? There are questions like these that the city council would have liked to answer. From 2015 to 2017 Manjura was the personal advisor to the then AWO managing director Hannelore Richter. He is now in his sights because long before the current AWO scandals he frankly admitted that no other employer apart from the AWO would have hired him. After all, he needed free time for his political commitment to the SPD. After the affairs of excessive salaries, expensive company cars and some bogus employment relationships became known in the district associations of Frankfurt and Wiesbaden, one wonders in Wiesbaden whether Manjura was one of those who cashed in without working. In November 2020, however, Manjura had already answered the questions of the city council and declared that there was no bogus employment relationship. As proof of work he named a concept for a nursing home.
The debate is also fueled by a package of letters and conversations by e-mail and messenger services between various actors from the AWO and others from 2012 to 2020, which was recently sent anonymously to various media, including the FR. After examination, the FR classifies the facts of random samples of the material as incorrect. However, city councilors are concerned and are demanding clarification.
“There is no real transparency, the city council and the AWO are blocking,” complains CDU city councilor Manuel Denzer. Therefore, “an external clarification must urgently take place”. For the FDP city councilor Alexander Winkelmann, the credibility and trust of the city government and AWO are at stake.
Mende points out that as Lord Mayor AWO and head of department, he cannot force answers, but must act “on a secure legal basis”. At the request of the CDU, the magistrate should now deal with further questions about Manjura and request the AWO to disclose its compliance rules to the management.
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