By Nhau Mangirazi
Karoi town council procurement committee is in a storm after allegedly inflating mobile prices exposing suspected abuse of public funds.
Council finance committee chaired by councilor Thomas Mbiri picked up a suspected ‘defrauding’ anomaly.
According to documents seen by this publication a memo by the buyer department requested mobile phones and Bluetooth printers on 13 October 2020.
‘‘I am requesting for ten mobile phones and ten portable Bluetooth printers. These will be used for the Town Park traffic management system previously adopted by council. The preferred phones must be running at least Android version 6 and printers need to be the same,’’ reads the request from procurement committee that sought three quotations to acquire Itel P36 Pro mobile phones.