The Major Culprit Is The One Who Authorised The payments - ZINARA Board On US$71M Scam
The Zimbabwe National Road Administration (Zinara) board has implicated financial actors with Roads Authorities and the Ministry of Transport and Infrastructure Development in a US$71 million scandal.
The money was reportedly used to fund “special projects”, some of which have never been implemented.
The scam was indicated in Auditor-General Mildred Chiri’s 2016 – 2017 forensic audit on ZINARA.
Speaking before Parliamentary Public Accounts Committee (PAC) yesterday, ZINARA board chairman, Engineer Michael Madanha, said:
Concerning the US$71 million which was the total amount signed for special projects in the past, we are analysing these amounts to assess the level of prejudice.
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The major culprit is the one who passed the interim payment certificate (IPC) to authorise the payments. There is a process to follow. When a contractor does work, these is measurement of those works, which were done. Each category of work has got rates. And at the end of the month, what the contractor did is measured and then pass an IPC, which will then authorise payment from Zinara.
Madanha added that the board had not authorised the engagement of contractors for special projects. He further said that going forward, there won’t be a similar issue. He added:
What we have done (as the new board) is actually to determine that Zinara will no longer implement (special) projects. We have reverted to our core functions, which do not contemplate implementation on the part of Zinara.
ZINARA is one of the government departments whose mismanagement of public funds were reported in the Auditor General’s reports.
More: The Herald
