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Bindura municipality fighting a Harare based company
21 Jun 2012 at 13:19hrs | Views
The Bindura Town Municipality is fighting a Harare based construction company to recover a total of US$1,5 million that was meant for road maintenance in the town last year.
Bindura last year received US$1, 5 million from the Zimbabwe National Road Authority (Zinara) to carry out maintenance on the town's roads.
The town's mayor, Ivory Matanhire, said a total of 40km was to be covered but the contracted company, Twalumba Contractors only managed to surface a road, which is less than a kilometre long.
The council is angered that Zinara and the Mashonaland Central provincial administrator, Josphat Jaji imposed Twalumba on the council to carry out the work without going for tender, which is against the Road Authority Act.
Jaji even threatened the Bindura Council that he would pressure Zinara to take back the funds if the council refused Twalumba the right to carry out the work but the contractor failed to do the work although the company was paid its money in full.
However, the Bindura Town Council has since moved in and sacked the town engineer, Batsirai Musona for allowing such shoddy work to be carried out and agreeing to the payment of Twalumba for the unfinished job.
The council has also blocked another attempt by Zinara to bring in a new contractor, Heingate which is owned by Danny Kasukuwere. Kasukuwere is the elder brother to Saviour Kasukuwere, a Zanu-PF Politburo member who hails from the province.
Mayor Matanhire said the council would not allow Jaji, the provincial administrator to continue approving dubious companies and not engaging the council as this was not procedural. He said council would take further steps to recover money that was given to Twalumba.
Bindura last year received US$1, 5 million from the Zimbabwe National Road Authority (Zinara) to carry out maintenance on the town's roads.
The town's mayor, Ivory Matanhire, said a total of 40km was to be covered but the contracted company, Twalumba Contractors only managed to surface a road, which is less than a kilometre long.
The council is angered that Zinara and the Mashonaland Central provincial administrator, Josphat Jaji imposed Twalumba on the council to carry out the work without going for tender, which is against the Road Authority Act.
However, the Bindura Town Council has since moved in and sacked the town engineer, Batsirai Musona for allowing such shoddy work to be carried out and agreeing to the payment of Twalumba for the unfinished job.
The council has also blocked another attempt by Zinara to bring in a new contractor, Heingate which is owned by Danny Kasukuwere. Kasukuwere is the elder brother to Saviour Kasukuwere, a Zanu-PF Politburo member who hails from the province.
Mayor Matanhire said the council would not allow Jaji, the provincial administrator to continue approving dubious companies and not engaging the council as this was not procedural. He said council would take further steps to recover money that was given to Twalumba.
Source - Byo24News
