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HARARE Town Clerk Hosiah Chisango, who is facing fraud charges in a US$9 million case, spent another night in prison after their bail ruling was postponed to tomorrow.
The State is opposing bail on the grounds that Chisango and his accomplice are a flight risk and are likely to interfere with witnesses.
Chisango is being charged together with the city’s principal contracts administrator, Artkins Mandaza, and they initially appeared in court in July.
Allegations are that in January, the City of Harare embarked on a rehabilitation scheme of street lighting along Harare roads in preparation for the 44th SADC Summit, which will be held in the capital this month.
On March 15, the City published an invitation to tender and eleven companies — Donax Enterprises (Pvt) Ltd, Ship Tracks (Pvt) Ltd, Furbank Trading (Pvt) Ltd, Radiation Incorporation (Pvt) Ltd, Slowgrad Engineering (Pvt) Ltd, Syvern Investments (Pvt) Ltd, Onel Electrical Engineers (Pvt) Ltd, Boltgas International (Pvt) Ltd, Stoyna Computers (Pvt) Ltd, Juluka End Joint Venture (Pvt) Ltd and Exodus & Company (Pvt) Ltd — responded.
Juluka Endo Joint Venture, a company in which businessman Moses Mpofu has majority shareholding, was disqualified after failing to meet the tender requirements.
However, Chisango and Mandaza, working in connivance with their accomplices, proceeded to unprocedurally award the tender of the remaining lots to Juluka End Joint Venture.
They disregarded their earlier decision to disqualify Juluka End Joint Venture for having failed to meet the bid requirements.
It is alleged that they awarded the tender to Juluka End Joint Venture, whose owners also own Synlak (Pvt) Ltd, a company which had been previously awarded a tender for a biogas digester in 2019 and failed to deliver.
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