AIR Zimbabwe senior executives’ disciplinary hearings, which commenced last week, will continue for the next couple of weeks amid disclosures that a determination on company secretary Grace Pfumbidzayi will be made on Friday.
Paidamoyo Muzulu
The executives are being accused of inappropriately awarding the airline’s fleet insurance to Navistar Insurance Brokers in an alleged scam where AirZim reportedly lost $10 million over five years.
The other suspended executives include acting group chief executive Innocent Mavhunga, finance director Nicholas Mujeri, finance manager Patience Tichagwa and human resources manager Oswald Madziva.
Wellington Pasipanodya of Manase and Manase Legal Practitioners chaired Pfumbidzayi’s hearing that was concluded on Friday evening after close to five hours.
Pfumbidzayi was represented by Johnlife Mawire of Mushangwe and Company during the hearing that was held in her absence. Mawire confirmed the hearing and said a determination would be made soon.
“The hearing was held last Friday and a determination is expected to be out by the end of the week. Call me after Friday the 14th of February for comment,” he said.
Pasipanodya was not immediately available for comment.
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Both parties in the matter were no longer comfortable discussing the unraveling matter in the public and agreed to keep the hearings confidential.
Prominent labour lawyer Caleb Mucheche is said to be representing the other executives in the hearings expected soon as the airline tries to bring closure to the corruption scandal that was damaging its brand.
The hearings were a result of a forensic audit at the airline by BCA Consultants that unearthed some questionable inflated insurance payments made from March 2009 through to March 2013.
The hearings continued amid counter claims that the action was a witchhunt at the airline as board members were accused of parcelling out tenders and business contracts to companies linked to them.
