By Bulawayo Correspondent
THE Bulawayo City Council has invited angry protests from a residents’ group after reinstating two of its employees who had been summarily dismissed by management for stealing a Jojo tank.
Council’s General Purposes Committee recently overturned a management resolution to expel the two employees who had stolen a Jojo tank from Kwezi training centre in the city’s Pelandaba suburb.
In reaching the decision, the committee argued the sentence against the employees was harsh.
In overturning the verdict, the committee suggested a written warning was appropriate in the circumstances.
However, the move has invited protests from the Bulawayo Progressive Residents Association (BPRA) which wrote recently to the local authority expressing its resentment over the decision.
From Willowgate to Covidgate: Three Decades of Malfeasance in Zimbabwe
The Robert Mugabe-led government’s response to the Willowgate scandal in Zimbabwe will go down in history as a missed opportunity for setting a precedent of combatting malfeasance. Although there had been earlier corruption scandals, like the Paweni grain supply scandal in the early 1980s, Willowgate is one of the country’s biggest “grand corruption” scandals, with some of its surviving beneficiaries, like Fredrick Shava and Jacob Mudenda, still enjoying the fruits of a culture of clientelism in the form of plum diplomatic assignments and continued service in public offices.
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By Robert Tapfumaneyi
THE majority of the “special projects” undertaken in recent years by the Zimbabwe National Roads Administration (ZINARA) were nothing but a grand looting scheme engineered by senior executives and hired contractors.
In the process, ZINARA lost over US$70 million to a private company, Univern Enterprises, and in the process severely crippling its operations.
The massive looting of the parastatal’s resources was unearthed recently by the Parliamentary Portfolio Committee on Public Accounts.
“The committee, therefore, makes the finding that the special projects were nothing other than looting of resources by the executive of ZINARA in connivance with corrupt contractors,” a report compiled by the lawmakers following a forensic audit for the period 2017-2019, reads.