By Talent Gondo- Newly-appointed Minister of Energy and Power Development, Fortune Chasi, has reportedly fired the entire ZESA board for incompetence.

A report by ZANU PF Patriots revealed that the energy minister was appalled by the board members who dwelled on trivialities while the nation was grappling with crippling power cuts.

Said Chasi:

“I looked at the minutes and discovered that the board spent much time on peripheral issues instead of dealing with real issues affecting Zesa.

There is evidence of no planning in carrying out their mandate and I found it fit to relieve the entire board of their duties.

We have a crisis and I expected the board to be handling such but instead, they dwell on none key issues.

The report added:

Chasi also said the entire board failed to deal with recommendations in the Zesa audit which exposed a lot of rot.

He reportedly added:

“The board sat on the audit and nothing was being done to implement the recommendations in the audit.

For Zesa to be transformed it requires men and women who are capable of thinking outside the box and the ministry is now busy looking for such people.”

An audit by the auditor general exposed the rot within the parastatal where senior managers milked huge allowances through shoddy procurement procedures.

The company is saddled with debt to foreign power suppliers and is not able to meet even half of the country’s electricity requirements.