SUSPENDED Zimbabwe National Road Administration (ZINARA) chief executive officer Engineer Nancy Masiyiwa-Chamisa and finance director Mr Simon Taranhike have been fired for alleged gross incompetence and abuse of office, The Herald can reveal.

The two have pending cases of corruption before the courts. This comes amid reports that over 24 other ZINARA workers were arrested on corruption charges and their cases are at various stages of trial.

Zinara board chairman Engineer Michael Madanha, who is leading the anti-corruption crusade at the parastatal, confirmed the pair’s expulsion and revealed deep-seated corruption at the road utility.
He said lifestyle audits were being instituted to recover looted public funds by some Zinara senior managers.

“The CEO and the financial director who were on suspension were fired for great incompetence and abuse of office after it was realised that all the rot at Zinara was happening under their noses whilst they were engaged in bruising fights and failed to act on reports of corruption addressed to them as accounting officers,” said Eng Madanha in a document.State media