‘I was last paid in 2006’

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The administrator said this while responding to questions from his lawyer, Mr Simplicious Chihambakwe during a hearing before a Parliamentary Privileges Committee in which he is being charged with contempt of Parliament. The charges arise from an interview he granted to NewsDay which the Mines and Energy Portfolio Committee felt demeaned it thereby violating the Priviledges and Powers of Parliament Act.
“The administration fees that I have been paid are up to 2006 and most of it have been from the Government. From 2007 to 2010, I made a bill but I have not been paid,” said Mr Gwaradzimba before the committee chaired by Chivi Central MP, Cde Munyaradzi Mangwana.
Asked by Mr Chihambakwe how he felt for not being paid he said: “Obvious, if one is not being paid, he is not happy.”
Mr Gwaradzimba has been accused of siphoning the mining firm through administration fees. He was also accused of being in conflict of interest when he accepted to be administrator of SMM, a firm that he used to audit before it was placed under reconstruction. “I have given an example of banks, where they were placed under curatorship of which the curators themselves were auditors of those banks, so there is no conflict of interest on my part,” he said.