Zinara defends ‘questionable’ Univern deal

The Zimbabwe National Road Administration (Zinara) yesterday claimed that the awarding of a 2016 contract to Univern for the supply and maintenance of graders and provision of software programmes was above board despite the Auditor-General (AG)’s 2017/18 audit reports saying tender processes were breached.

Zinara board chairperson George Manyaya appeared before the Public Accounts Committee yesterday to explain steps taken to correct the wrongdoings at the institution, that were exposed by the AG’s 2017 and 2018 audit reports.

The report exposed Zinara’s failure to follow procurement procedures and inflating of charges for the supply of graders and three software programmes by Univern Enterprises (Pvt) Ltd.

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