REVELATIONS that executive directors at the Zimbabwe
National Road Administration (Zinara) earn $6 909,50, while senior management
get between $3 721 and $4 523, with the lowest paid worker at the same company
earning $375, have irked Parliamentarians.
Zinara human resources manager Juliana Maphosa, who
together with other executives from the road authority, revealed the salaries
while appearing before the Parliamentary Portfolio Committee on Transport and
Infrastructural Development (PPCTID) yesterday.
“The E grade senior manager is getting from a range of
ZWL$3 721 to ZWL$4 523 that is the gross, so that is our senior management.
Then we have the executive.
When we go to the executive, that is the directors. So we
are saying HR manager, ICT manager, audit manager and finance manager. So the
directors at the moment are getting $6 909,50, that is the gross salary for the
directors,” Maphosa said.
She added that on top of these salaries, the senior and
executive managers receive a 10% allowance benefit based on their salaries.
“On allowances for senior executives and management, we
have got a 10% representative allowance. We also talk of the company vehicles
and all that,” Maphosa said.
For the lowest paid worker, they receive a $88 and $110,
transport and housing allowance, respectively.
The gap in salaries comes at a time the parastatal is
saddled with corruption allegations, where millions of public funds cannot be
accounted for.
Recently, Transport minister Joel Biggie Matiza appeared
before the Parliamentary Portfolio Committee on Public Accounts, where he
admitted that the road authority lost millions of dollars to corruption.
In these alleged acts of corruption, it has mostly been
senior level managers and directors being implicated in the misuse of public
funds received by Zinara.
Also appearing before the PPCTID, Zinara chairperson
Michael Madanha revealed that currently, they were using an internal audit team
to look into how the parastatal’s funds were being spent.
Currently, Zinara has put a budget of $239 million for its
fiscal year.
Speaking to NewsDay Business following the appearance
before the Transport and Infrastructure Development Committee, Zinara acting
chief executive officer Saston Muzenda said they were working on implementing changes
to earnings for senior managers and executives.
“Those are issues that are being addressed. That is why we
are here to sort of sanitise the situation and deal with matters that relate to
corporate governance compliance. We are going to look at everything in terms of
the conditions of service,” he said.
“We are working on something to review the salaries of
workers (lowest paid) through the collective bargaining negotiations.” Newsday
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