Tinashe Sambiri| A Cotton Company of Zimbabwe official is in trouble for awarding a tender to an MDC Alliance official in Chiredzi.

ZimEye.com has gathered that the Minister of State for Masvingo, Ezra Chadzamira, Chiredzi North MP Roy Bhila and top Central Intelligence Organization officers have reprimanded Cotton Company of Zimbabwe official, Innocent Gukwe for awarding a transport tender to the MDC Alliance official.

The official’s company won a tender to ferry Cotton Company of Zimbabwe workers to and from work.

“Gukwe is in trouble.CIO officers acting on instructions from Ezra Chadzamira and Roy Bhila instructed Gukwe to cancel the tender awarded to a company reportedly belonging to an MDC Alliance official with immediate effect.

They also threatened to fire him,” a source told ZimEye.com.

However, Gukwe, quoted by a weekly publication said :
“No, we did not even know that the omnibus belonged to an MDC Alliance member. We do not look into people’s political backgrounds when awarding tenders.

“We thought it was just another local business person. We are now following your decisions on the case because Dingane Ncube (CIO) once came to me with the issue and said he was going to advise me on how to handle the issue.”