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Africa-Press<\/a> – Zimbabwe<\/a>. <\/strong><\/span>By Robert Tapfumaneyi<\/b> – THE majority of the \u201cspecial projects\u201d 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.<\/p>\n

In the process, ZINARA lost over US$70 million to a private company, Univern Enterprises, and in the process severely crippling its operations.<\/p>\n

The massive looting of the parastatal\u2019s resources was unearthed recently by the Parliamentary Portfolio Committee on Public Accounts.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe 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,\u201d a report compiled by the lawmakers following a forensic audit for the period 2017-2019, reads.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe committee further makes the finding that, in the majority of the special projects, there was no delivery, no performance, and no oversight by the ZINARA board.\u201d<\/p>\n

The parliamentary committee accused the ZINARA management and Univern of abusing principles of sound corporate governance in the supply of road graders, their maintenance, transit fees, the supply of software equipment for the toll gates, and fuel levy systems.<\/p>\n

\u201cUnder these contracts, Univern received the following huge amounts, grader payments US$17 305 240 \u2013 (an overpayment of US$1 223 640), grader maintenance US$5 218 000 \u2013 (not covered in State Procurement Board\u2019s conditions) and US$70 403 738 for the three software contracts between 2012 and 2015,\u201d the report added.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn addition, the committee makes the finding that there was a deliberate misleading to the State Procurement Board, which acting on wrong information or alternatively in collusion with the same proceeded to issue a condonation.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe charges by Univern have crippled ZINARA and rendered ZINARA a collection agent for Univern very much against its core mandate. This is as unconscionable as it is unacceptable. ZINARA executed special projects with many questionable and dubious contractors which cost the organisation the sums of US$71 487 896, 21 and ZAR 31 452 102, 53.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Public Accounts Committee has since forwarded its report to law enforcement agencies including the police, the Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission (ZACC), and the National Prosecuting Authority (NPA) for \u201cthorough investigations on commissions and omissions\u201d by implicated individuals at ZINARA, Univern, and the then State Procurement.<\/p>\n

It also ordered ZINARA with the assistance of experts, to recover all amounts corruptly paid to contractors.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe recoveries must be made within a period of 12 months from the adoption of this report.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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