After grilling businessman, Wicknell Chivayo, the Parliamentary Portfolio committee on Mines and Energy is now set to visit the controversi...
After grilling businessman, Wicknell Chivayo, the Parliamentary
Portfolio committee on Mines and Energy is now set to visit the controversial Gwanda
solar project.
The Temba Mliswa led committee wants to assess progress on
the ground. “The Gwanda one is to do with ZPC and Intratrek, the Wicknell
Chivayo company. We are going to verify what’s on the ground vis a vis what has
been paid,” said Mliswa.
Chivayo has said he was paid $5 million by the Zimbabwe
Power Company but the ZPC chairman said Chivayo was actually paid $7 million. Mliswa said after Gwanda they will tour Hwange Colliery and
Kamativi Mine on Thursday before rounding off with Shabanie Mine on Friday.
“We are going to look at Kamativi, we hear there is an
investor. We also hear of things being stripped off by the Chinese investor and
we’ll also look at its resuscitation. We
will proceed to Hwange as well to look at the problems which are there and also
to look at the production, the challenges that they are facing. It’s not really
about problems but challenges and as Parliament to see how best we can also
intervene,” said Mliswa.
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