The Parliamentary Portfolio Committee on Transport and Infrastructural Development yesterday turned away an interim CMED workers' committee that appeared before it saying they wanted to get evidence from the previous committee privy to the goings-on at the parastatal. It is understood that the portfolio committee had invited the CMED Loss Control and workers' committee to give an insight into circumstances surrounding the US$2,7 million tender awarded to a local company last year for the supply of three million litres of fuel that has not been delivered.
But an interim workers' committee that was appointed last month pitched up and the legislators felt the new committee would not do justice in answering some of the questions surrounding the botched fuel deal and issues affecting the workers.
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