Embattled Zambia Railways Limited Proffesor Clive Chirwa’s company, Claval Incorporated, is broke and his attempt to award it lucrative quasi-government business was a way of boosting its poor financial status, Zambia Reports has learnt.
And pressure is mounting for Professor Clive Efford Chirwa to resign as the Zambia Railways Chief Executive Officer following revelations by the dissolved board he had engaged in inappropriate business practice that could render him subject to corruption investigation in a corrupt free country.
According to records in the UK, where Clavel Incorporated Limited, is registered and operates, the company is an active, non trading business incorporated in England & Wales on 11th August 2000.
The company, however, has recorded very little business activity since 10 years ago and is seemingly owned solely by Prof Chirwa who has co-opted family members including his wife as dircetors.
Daniel Phillip Chirwa, Dennis Chirwa and a Mrs Elena Mikailovna Chirwa are the other three directors on Claval Incorporated, an engineering related scientific and technical consulting activities company.
Prof Chirwa wanted to engage his company, according to Professor Oliver Saasa – a respected economist and former vice chairman of the ZRL board – to train staff at the company without following tender procedure and did not declare interest.
It is one of the sticky points that led to a conflict between the dissolved board and a flamboyant Prof Chirwa who is so far proving more of a talk-shop than a chief executive.
Following corruption related allegations against Prof Chirwa, the Patriotic Front aligned Transparency International Zambia is leading the call for the Englishman to quit.
TIZ president Lee Habasonda said the allegations agaist Professor Chirwa were serious and needed him to step aside to facilitate full investigations.
Habasonda said he hoped President Michael Sata had learnt a lesson from the manner the Prof Chirwa case was handled. He said the board should not have been dissolved before hearing them out.
Prof Chirwa has come under fire after his excessive wage demands which were exposed after he clashed with the board on various corporate governance issues.
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