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Parliament wants PSMAS' Cuthbert Dube prosecuted
28 Jan 2014 at 16:34hrs | Views
THE Parliamentary Portfolio committee on Health and Child Care says former Premier Services Medical Aid Society chief executive officer Mr Cuthbert Dube must be prosecuted for misappropriating civil servants' contributions, the Herald reported.
The committee is made up of Members from Zanu-PF and MDC-T legislators.
MDC-T legislator for Bulawayo Dr Ruth Labode read the statement in the presence of committee members from the two parties at Parliament this morning.
"The committee notes that the decision of the PSMAS board to retire the CEO with possible benefits is not in the best interest of the public.
"The committee recommends that he (Mr Dube) be prosecuted for theft and or misappropriation of members' funds," read Dr Labode.
It also recommended that the entire board be sacked and blacklisted from sitting in any other public institution board.
Cuthbert Dube was on Monday relieved of his PSMAS duties after reaching the retirement age.
The development comes after it emerged Dube was earning $230,000 each month while PSMAS strugglesto pay service providers resulting in members, mostly civil servants, being forced to pay upfront for healthcare.
PSMAS is jointly managed by the Ministries of Health, Public Service as well as Finance.
According to recent media reports Dube earned close to a quarter of a million dollars while group managing director Farai Muchena was being paid to $190,000 monthly.
The top eight managers at PSMAS were gobbling at least $1 million in basic monthly salaries at a time the state enterprise is reeling under huge debts.
As at December 31, the society owed service providers $38 million in unpaid bills for medical services rendered to its members.
Dube joined PSMAS as internal auditor in 1986 and rose through the ranks to general manager in 1992. He was appointed group chief executive in 2001 following a restructuring exercise.
He is also president of the insolvent Zimbabwe Football Association which relies on his cash hand-outs.
Dube was until November last year board chairman of the equally skint Zimbabwe Broadcasting Corporation (ZBC) where the CEO earned $40,000 while workers went for six months without pay.
He was sacked from the ZBC by the information ministry after the board and the management failed to come up with a turnaround strategy for the heavily indebted institution.
The committee is made up of Members from Zanu-PF and MDC-T legislators.
MDC-T legislator for Bulawayo Dr Ruth Labode read the statement in the presence of committee members from the two parties at Parliament this morning.
"The committee notes that the decision of the PSMAS board to retire the CEO with possible benefits is not in the best interest of the public.
"The committee recommends that he (Mr Dube) be prosecuted for theft and or misappropriation of members' funds," read Dr Labode.
It also recommended that the entire board be sacked and blacklisted from sitting in any other public institution board.
Cuthbert Dube was on Monday relieved of his PSMAS duties after reaching the retirement age.
The development comes after it emerged Dube was earning $230,000 each month while PSMAS strugglesto pay service providers resulting in members, mostly civil servants, being forced to pay upfront for healthcare.
According to recent media reports Dube earned close to a quarter of a million dollars while group managing director Farai Muchena was being paid to $190,000 monthly.
The top eight managers at PSMAS were gobbling at least $1 million in basic monthly salaries at a time the state enterprise is reeling under huge debts.
As at December 31, the society owed service providers $38 million in unpaid bills for medical services rendered to its members.
Dube joined PSMAS as internal auditor in 1986 and rose through the ranks to general manager in 1992. He was appointed group chief executive in 2001 following a restructuring exercise.
He is also president of the insolvent Zimbabwe Football Association which relies on his cash hand-outs.
Dube was until November last year board chairman of the equally skint Zimbabwe Broadcasting Corporation (ZBC) where the CEO earned $40,000 while workers went for six months without pay.
He was sacked from the ZBC by the information ministry after the board and the management failed to come up with a turnaround strategy for the heavily indebted institution.
Source - The Herald
