FORMER Higher and Tertiary Education, Science and
Technology Development permanent Secretary Professor Francis Gudyanga was
yesterday arrested for corruption.
He was picked up by the Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission
(ZACC) and is now in custody at Rhodesville Police Station in Harare.
He is expected to appear in court today. ZACC spokesperson
Ms Phylis Chikundura confirmed Prof Gudyanga’s arrest.
“We have arrested Gudyanga,” she said. “He is detained at
Rhodesville Police Station and is appearing in court tomorrow.”
Our Harare Bureau is reliably informed that Prof Gudyanga
was arrested for suspected cases of corruption he committed when he was permanent
secretary in the Ministry of Mines and Mining Development.
Prof Gudyanga who at the time chaired the Minerals
Marketing Corporation of Zimbabwe (MMCZ), never convened a meeting of the
board, but claimed $28 000 in board sitting allowances. He was the only board
member and allegedly never consulted the acting general-manager Richard
Chingodza and the corporation’s secretary Nomsa Moyo, whom he was supposed to
hold meetings with, according to the Company Act.
He is on record telling the Harare magistrates’ court
during the trial of MMCZ bosses that he paid himself board fees when there was
no board to talk of at the parastatal.
Prof Gudyanga told the court in March this year while
testifying against the MMCZ bosses: “It is not just sitting, but decision
making. No, it was not sitting fees, but boarding fees because we did not sit
as a board. The board is not all about sitting, but consultation and decision
making. It took most of my time.”
Prof Gudyanga received $875 monthly as board fees and $460 sitting
fees for “sitting” 21 times, totalling $28 910. Herald
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