Govt Appoints New ZESA Board

Minister of Energy and Power Development Joram Gumbo has appointed former Cotton Company of Zimbabwe (Cottco) boss, Collins Chihuri as the new Zimbabwe Electricity Supply Authority (ZESA) board chairperson.

Other board members include Benson Munyaradzi, Jacqueline Sande, Trust Chifamba, Hussein Omar, Catherine Befura and Thomas Timire.

Chihuri has been Cottco Managing Director as well as the company’s head of Corporate Procurement. Chihuri stepped down just after the ouster of former President Robert Mugabe. At the material time Cottco was supposed to carry out a forensic audit and all Executives were expected to cooperate with auditors. The audit report exposed Chihuri did not take action against people who were prejudicing the company.