Published: 13 April 2018

The cancellation of the Geiger International road dualisation deal has exposed that incompetence and corruption abounded in Government corridors amid revelations that the Austrian company is just a "briefcase" firm with no financial muscle to mobilise the required funding for the dualisation of the Beitbridge-Harare highway.

According to the Special Advisor to the President, Christopher Mutsvangwa, who was part of the delegation that accompanied President Mnangagwa to China, Geiger is just a briefcase company with no capacity to fund a $1 billion project.

He said Geiger officials had spent the past two years, since getting the deal, knocking on Chinese construction firms' doors begging for funding.
- Business Weekly

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