Sakunda director fails to appear before Parly over suspicious Dema power plant

SAKUNDA Holdings director Kudakwashe Tagwirei yesterday chickened out and failed to appear before the Temba Mliswa-led Parliamentary Portfolio Committee on Mines and Energy to face grilling over shady deals concerning the Dema power project, which is said to have gobbled millions of litres of fuel, yet the project was abandoned last year.

Committee members wanted Tagwirei and his team to answer questions on how Sakunda clinched the Dema contract, how they used the duty-free fuel imports and several other questions pertaining to the deal.

Acting chairperson of the Mines Parliamentary Portfolio Committee Simbaneuta Mudarikwa told journalists that Parliament would now write a second letter to Tagwireyi to ensure he appears before the committee.

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