By Talent Gondo| The parliamentary committee on Public Accounts yesterday exposed ZINARA ineptitude amid revelations that there were individuals from the former management who had been reengaged in the parastatal’ s new administration.
The duo, Moses Juma and one Mr Murove were re-engaged as technical director and finance manager respectively.

Giving her oral evidence before the Public Accounts Committee chaired by MDC T member of parliament, Paurina Mpariwa, ZINARA boss, Nancy Masiiwa Chamisa said her hands were tied in retaining the duo hence her administration was working round the clock to ensure that the parastatal implemented the Auditor General’s recommendations going forward and plug any loop holes which may be manipulated to suit particular agendas.

“Unfortunately to date, the payment vouchers amounting to $437 279 are nowhere to be found and because I was not yet at the parastatal, I cannot account or explain what happened,” she said. (STORY CONTINUES BELOW VIDEO)

Parliamentarians sought clarity from the former acting CEO, Juma who failed to account for the vouchers neither could he explain how ZINARA paid two directors $36 383 in excess of what was approved.

“These are historical issues which will not happen again,” said the former CEO who is now a technical director at the same parastatal.

Murove, who confirmed benefiting from the executive allowances including fuel and cellphone allowances which was not taxed repeatedly cited an ‘oversight’ on the part of the former ZINARA management failing to explain why due process was being flouted during the period 2015 and 2016.

The Auditor General’s report also noted that $1.7 million was paid to suppliers without supporting documents while the same was also done when Bitumen World was paid $748 116.90 for road surfacing works done at One Commando and Police General Headquarters (PGHQ).

The Public Accounts Committee probed the duo on why payments were done without supporting documents to which the former ZINARA management responded by insisting it was an ‘oversight’.