Own Correspondent|In a major scandal which ZimEye.com unearthed at President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s so much loved ZUPCO project, it has since emerged that a point of sale machine that was used to collect money for the obviously loss making venture was found dumped at a toilet at the company premises.

This happened in October 2019 just under a year of the millions of dollars project commenced.

Reports indicate that there was a machine number 8 which was stationed at Willowvale Depot which caused continuous shortages that ended up running up to thousands of dollars, albeit Zim dollars.

The machine was eventually tracked by IT, only to be discovered that it was not sending money to the government run company Bank Accounts but was sending somewhere else.

When the audit was being conducted top officers in the company blocked the investigations on the machine.

A POS machine, probably the same machine, was later discovered inside a toilet without an identification number, and no sim card in it.

The identification number and the sim card would have made it easy to track the operator and the account number where the money was being routed.

Zupco has since fired its Risk, & Audit Control Manager, a Mr Chimbanda in the first week of February.

Chimbanda who had been appointed Risk Manager on the 1st August 2019, was fired within 6 months at work just before commencing a human resources audit.

Impeccable sources revealed to ZimEye, he had at the time attempted to do an indepth risk audit, following several scandals in the human resources department, that have seen unlicensed drivers being employed amid a rising spate of accidents by ZUPCO buses.

The CEO and the Operations Division blocked the audit and rushed to remove Chimbanda from the post.

After Chimbanda was removed, he (Chimbanda) raised a complaint with the Task Force, but they did nothing at all.