By Staff Reporter
THE Rufaro Marketing Board (RMB) has denied allegations of not remitting the Harare City Council dues insisting payments were last made recently.
Speaking before the Justice Maphios Cheda Commission of Inquiry into the allegations facing the local authority, RMB chairperson Warren Chiwawa denied allegations of non-remittance in the last two years.
He maintained the payments were made with last transactions have been concluded just recently.
“Currently, it vacillates between US$35 000 and US$45 000 per month, but it is not the full capacity,” Chiwawa told the commission last week.
“According to the council resolution, it’s 60% towards social services like stadiums, 20% coming as cash or transfer and then the other 20%, we retain for administration and related services,” he said.
“We have remitted around US$60 000 in cash to the City of Harare disaggregated as a US$32 000 deposit, then we made another deposit of US$24 000 and then another deposit of US$7 000.”
Chiwawa also revealed that the bulk of their funds, constituting 60%, were channeled towards service delivery.
Last year, the Harare City Council (HCC)-owned Rufaro Marketing suspended its chief executive officer (CEO) Daniel Mutiwadirwa over alleged insubordination.
Chiwawa is part of the team tasked with the responsibility to turn around the fortunes of the RMB after years of bad governance at the entity.
