ENERGY and Power Development Minister Dr Joram Gumbo
yesterday announced a new seven-member ZESA board, and directed the members to
superintend over the rebundling of the power utility, fight corruption and
ensure a steady power supply.
Former Cottco managing director Mr Collins Chihuri will
chair the board, while Ministry of Energy and Power Development acting
permanent secretary Engineer Benson Munyaradzi will represent the ministry on
the board.
The other board members are Ms Jacqueline Sande, Mr Trust
Chifamba, Mr Hussein Omar, Mrs Cathrine Befura and Mr Thomas Timire.
“We meet at a watershed moment as Zesa embarks on a journey
to be re-engineered and rebundled into a single entity,” sad Dr Gumbo, while
addressing the board members and the press in Harare yesterday.
Dr Gumbo said the new board was leaner than it ordinarily
would have been, given that it is a single board to oversee the rebundling
process and also ensure that the power utility is managed as one entity, and
potentially bring efficiencies.
He said the board should look at the structure of ZESA,
with a view to streamlining it to ensure it is not “top heavy”.
“You come to ZESA at a time when the company is marking
four years of stable power supply and is in the throes of undertaking perhaps
one of the biggest capital projects in the country since independence — the
Hwange Expansion Project — at a cost of US$1,4 billion, which comes soon after
the completion of the Kariba project,” he said. Herald
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