Published: 27 January 2014

Electricity users on the pre-paid platform will continue to endure the inconvenience of purchasing their units at a few local outlets as the tender to choose aggregators to retail them was recently cancelled over allegations of deep-seated corruption and favouritism, it has emerged.

Currently, about 350 000 pre-paid meters out of a targeted 800 000 have been installed.

The tender to appoint aggregators for the resale of pre-paid electricity units - tender number ZETDC/HO/04/ 2013 - which closed on October 29, 2013, attracted more than 40 bidders who were willing to cash in on the vending business.

It is understood Zesa (Zimbabwe Electricity Supply Authority)'s system could only interface and accommodate at least 4 aggregators.

However, allegations emerged during the bidding process that companies that were earmarked to win the bid had been pre-determined by corrupt officials from both Zesa and the State Procurement Board.
- sundaymail

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