Ex-Nssa boss Vela gets ConCourt relief

A FULL Constitutional Court (ConCourt) bench has set aside a Supreme Court ruling which upheld a forensic audit report linking former National Social Security Authority (Nssa) chairperson, Robin Vela, to alleged corruption — giving life to a High Court ruling that dismissed the audit report.

In March 2019, BDO Zimbabwe Chartered Accountants, after having been contracted by then Auditor-General Mildred Chiri, released a damning forensic audit report which implicated Vela in several cases of corruption.

The former Nssa boss applied for a review of the audit report and won the matter at the High Court after arguing that the findings were biased, incompetent and targeted at him in a witch-hunt exercise.

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