Three Harare City council employees who allegedly awarded
tenders to supply goods and services to companies they have links with were
arrested on Friday by the Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission (ZACC).
The trio — Resline Biza (49), Terence Mhereyenyoka (47) and
Nhamo Gavhu — yesterday appeared separately before Harare magistrate Mr Josiah
Mujaya facing corruption charges.
They were not asked to plead and magistrate Mujaya granted
Biza and Mhereyenyoka $400 bail each while Gavhu was asked to pay $500.
They are all expected to be back in court on December 9.
According to State papers, Biza used a company — Sales Arena — which she is
alleged to have an interest in to raise an order to supply a tent to the local
authority.
“Accused awarded the contract to her company Sales Arena
which supplied a tent worth US$9 000 without going through competitive bidding
with three or more companies, thereby deceiving her principal, Harare City
Council,” read the case outline.
The court papers also show that Mhereyenyoka faced one
count of doctoring a company registration document which he used to supply the
local authority a spray gun and Chalkline worth US$5 700.
“The accused carried out a transaction in connection with
his principals’ affairs without disclosing to the principal that he held a
personal interest in the subject matter of the transactions,” read
Mherenyenyoka’s charge sheet in part.
It is further alleged that Gavhu, who faces five counts of
corruption, used false documents to defraud Harare City Council.
“Sometime in January 2017 Harare City Council invited
quotations for the purchase of rope lights. The accused unlawfully and
intentionally used a document containing false statements … to raise fake
quotations purporting them to be from Lighting World Msasa and Powerspeed
Electrical.
“The accused inflated prices for the purported two
competing companies for them to appear undesirable compared to his company of
choice, Alichia (Pvt) Ltd, giving it unfair advantage to win the bid and
supplied the rope lights worth US$10 000 without going through competitive
bidding, thereby deceiving his principals.”
Gavhu is alleged to have used the same modus operandi on
four other separate occasions.
In granting bail, magistrate Mr Majaya ordered the trio to
reside at their given addresses, surrender passports and not to interfere with
State witnesses. Sunday Mail
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