Chronicle Editor
Tendai Mugabe, Harare Bureau
Government has flexed its muscle to plug off financial leakages that have rocked the Zimbabwe National Roads Administration by making sure that the organisation sticks to its core mandate of fixing road user fees and disbursing funds for road maintenance.
Further, a clean-up is underway at the parastatal to remove those implicated in abuse of funds.
Transport and Infrastructural Development Minister Joe Biggie Matiza told Zimpapers Television Network
in an interview on Tuesday night that Government was restructuring Zinara in a systematic manner.
“Zinara was not doing its core business, was now doing other businesses, contracting, engaging in construction directly,” he said.
“That aspect is where all these other problems are coming from. By simply making sure that Zinara sticks to its core mandate they disappear.
“That is what the board has done now. In addition to that, there are suspensions that are going on now in the organisation. There is a lot of work going on systematically to make sure that we clean up this process.
“We are building up Zinara in a systematic manner and despite the questions that are coming, we will not stop.
“We will continue. We hope by the time we finish which is very soon we need a substantive CEO to come in. All the things that are not correct are going to be dealt with easily.”
Zinara board chairman Engineer Michael Madanha said they would leave no stone unturned in their cleansing process at Zinara.
With regards to the issue of suspended chief executive officer, Nancy Masiyiwa-Chamisa, he said the board was not going to renew her contract after noting that she was involved in a scandalous mortgage loan issue with former chairman Albert Mugabe.
He said the contract of Messrs Precious Murove and Moses Juma were also not going to be renewed upon expiry for various charges.
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