Town Clerk arrested for US$9.2mn opaque deal
ANESU MASAMVU
Harare Town Clerk, Engineer Hosiah Chisango, was yesterday arrested by the Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission (ZACC) over an opaque US$9.2mn street lighting tender deal that also implicates incarcerated businessman Moses Mpofu.
ZACC confirmed the arrest of Chisango who now face 𝐜𝐡𝐚𝐫𝐠𝐞𝐬 𝐨𝐟 𝐜𝐫𝐢𝐦𝐢𝐧𝐚𝐥 𝐚𝐛𝐮𝐬𝐞 𝐨𝐟 𝐝𝐮𝐭𝐲.
“𝐀𝐥𝐥𝐞𝐠𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐬 𝐚𝐫𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐄𝐧𝐠. 𝐂𝐡𝐢𝐬𝐚𝐧𝐠𝐨 𝐚𝐜𝐭𝐞𝐝 𝐢𝐧 𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐧𝐢𝐯𝐚𝐧𝐜𝐞 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐟𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐨𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫 𝐨𝐟𝐟𝐢𝐜𝐢𝐚𝐥𝐬 𝐰𝐡𝐨 𝐚𝐫𝐞 𝐚𝐥𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐝𝐲 𝐢𝐧 𝐜𝐮𝐬𝐭𝐨𝐝𝐲 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐚𝐰𝐚𝐫𝐝𝐞𝐝 𝐚 𝐬𝐭𝐫𝐞𝐞𝐭 𝐥𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭𝐬 𝐭𝐞𝐧𝐝𝐞𝐫 𝐰𝐨𝐫𝐭𝐡 𝐨𝐯𝐞𝐫 𝐔𝐒$𝟗,𝟐 𝐦𝐢𝐥𝐥𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐭𝐨 𝐉𝐮𝐥𝐮𝐤𝐚 𝐄𝐧𝐧𝐝𝐨 𝐉𝐨𝐢𝐧𝐭 𝐕𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐞, 𝐚 𝐜𝐨𝐦𝐩𝐚𝐧𝐲 𝐨𝐰𝐧𝐞𝐝 𝐛𝐲 𝐛𝐮𝐬𝐢𝐧𝐞𝐬𝐬𝐦𝐚𝐧 𝐌𝐨𝐬𝐞𝐬 𝐌𝐩𝐨𝐟𝐮, 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡𝐨𝐮𝐭 𝐟𝐨𝐥𝐥𝐨𝐰𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐝𝐮𝐞 𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐜𝐞𝐬𝐬,” the statement reads.
“𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐓𝐨𝐰𝐧 𝐂𝐥𝐞𝐫𝐤 𝐢𝐬 𝐞𝐱𝐩𝐞𝐜𝐭𝐞𝐝 𝐭𝐨 𝐚𝐩𝐩𝐞𝐚𝐫 𝐢𝐧 𝐜𝐨𝐮𝐫𝐭 𝐨𝐧 𝟐𝟓 𝐉𝐮𝐥𝐲, 𝟐𝟎𝟐𝟒.”
Chisango joins other Harare City Council Officials Never Murerwa (62), manager of the supply chain in the Procurement Management Unit; Jabulani Mukomazi (44), principal buyer; Denford Zhungu (69), principal accountant; and Tawanda Mutenhabundo (29), engineering technician who all allegedly connived in the deal.
Mpofu is currently in remand prison with fellow businessman and Zanu PF politician Mike Mpofu on separate fraud charges involving US$87 million, which was meant for the Presidential Goat Scheme. He got the street lights tender despite his company failing to meet the necessary requirements.
