by stephen Chandisareva.
Harare, Zimbabwe. – (News of the South) –Former State Procurement Board chairperson Charles Kuwaza who committed suicide on Tuesday by throwing himself out of a building will be buried today at Glen Forest Memorial Park.
Kuwaza’s body arrived at his Borrowdale home from a city parlour yesterday in preparation for burial.
It is alleged that Kuwaza, who led the SPB from September 2001 to November 2015, threw himself out of the Club Chambers building where he sought to collect documents from his office to support his defence in a matter before courts and died on landing.
Mr Kuwaza was facing five counts of corruption involving over $1 million and ZW$2, 5 billion.
Sources said Kuwaza went into his office at around 11am, leaving his wife in their family cars. The wife made a follow-up about 40 minutes
later after members of the public indicated that a man had apparently
committed suicide, only to discover her husband’s lifeless body lied on the tarmac.
Sources close to his family alleges that Kuwaza did not take lightly his arrest on corruption charges.
On count one, Kuwaza received on behalf of the SPB a donation of Toyota Land Cruiser Prado valued at $120 000 from the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe and Instead of handing over the vehicle to the SPB he converted it to his own use.
Also on count two, He also acted contrary to his duties by ordering
SPB’s payroll officers not to deduct Pay as You Earn from his taxable benefits.
Kuwaza was the permanent secretary for Finance and Economic Development as well as the Ministry of Defence between 1994 and 2000.
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