Corruption Alert! Why Did Zim Get Less Power For Double The Money Spend By Zambia To Build Power Plant
21 July 2019
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Jane Mlambo| Zimbabwe’s stinking corrupt dealings involving a Chinese contractor Sino Hydro has been exposed amid revelations that Zambia got a better deal at half the figure paid by Zimbabwe to get a paltry 150MW of power supply onto the national grid.

In two separate reports below, President Emmerson Mnangagwa commissioned 150 MW Kariba Hydroelectric Power Station expansion constructed by Sinohydro at a cost of USD$533 million while our nothern neighbors commissioned a 360MW plant built at a cost of USD$278 Million.

This lays bare the fact that the country’s current power challenges are a creation of a corrupt click within government who have also been accused of scuttling Econet Wireless Founder Strive Masiyiwa’s US250 Million proposed project that was going to add about 500MW onto the national grid.

With such a revelation, isn’t it time to revisit Zimbabwe’s projects against inflation of figures and corruption?