Zec-gate: Poll body faces probe

THE Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec) has been summoned to appear before the Parliamentary Public Accounts Committee on Friday as it reels from a multi-million dollar tender scandal involving convicted criminal and President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s associate Wicknell Chivayo.

A leaked recording of a conversation between Chivayo and his former business partners Moses Mpofu and Mike Chimombe revealed that the three were part of the deal involving a South African company, Ren-Form CC, worth over US$40 million and they fell out over disagreement on the sharing of the loot.

Chimombe is a Zanu PF central committee member and president of Economic Empowerment Group that is  aligned to the ruling party.

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