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THE story of a man who was shot in Emganwini suburb in
Bulawayo last week, in an alleged robbery attempt has taken a new and dramatic
twist, with the assailant, an umalayitsha cum-businessman being accused of
having an illicit affair with his wife.
Sunday News can reveal that the man in question is former
Siyaya Arts group member Tawanda “MaPecca” Moyo (43), who has since demanded
that his wife must not visit him in hospital, following the confrontation,
leading to the shooting. Moyo is admitted at Mpilo Central Hospital’s Intensive
Care Unit. Moyo was shot and left with a bullet lodged in his abdomen, after
confronting his wife and the alleged lover, in the incident that occurred last
Tuesday night.
Local artistes have since launched a campaign to raise
funds to assist him and have also sought the services of a lawyer to represent
him. Narrating the series of events leading to the dramatic shooting, Moyo
alleged he was shot in the name of love.
He said on the night in question, he trailed his wife Mrs
Jacqueline Chesigelenaso (Banda) Moyo, whose age was not given, from work in the
city centre, where she met with her alleged lover Mr Oricious Moyo (38), who is
also her employer at a fast food outlet, in Emakhandeni suburb, where they then
drove to his house in Emganwini.
“I always suspected that my wife was having an affair but I
just wasn’t sure with whom,” said Moyo. He said on Monday he then decided to
tail his wife, seeking to unmask her alleged lover.
“On Monday I tried to tail her but lost her along the way.
It was then on Tuesday that fate would have it that I came face to face with
the man I believed to be just her employer. She got off work between 9.30pm and
10pm and got a ride from one of her workmates husband’s car. They dropped her
off at 6th Avenue, where I then assumed she would catch a kombi home to
Gwabalanda but no, she got into a Cowdray Park suburb bound kombi.
“She dropped off in Emakhandeni near the cricket club and
got into a small vehicle . . . a Vista. I, in the company of a friend in a
vehicle we had hired to tail them, then followed the car to Emganwini, where I
was shot,” said Moyo.
He said once the vehicle in which his wife and alleged
lover drew to a stop by the house, he asked his friends to park at a safe
location and would confront them himself.
“I don’t want to lie, I was agitated and my nerves were
wrecking me. I needed some sort of closure and this was it. I walked up to the
car on the passenger side, where my wife was seated. I knocked on the window,
which she didn’t open, then I decided to open the rear passenger door. There I
then asked him (Oricious) what he was doing with my wife. I turned the question
to my wife as well and they were both mum.
“Needing closure I knelt on the ground to ask them what was
going on and that is the precise moment he turned the ignition of the car on
and shifted the gear . . . I can’t remember to what level but I remember
grabbing the door and clinging on it, as they tried to drive off. After that
all I remember is hearing a loud crack and a sharp pain in my abdomen, before I
fell to the ground. They then sped off and left me for dead,” said Moyo.
He said he then started crying for help and a man from one
of the nearby houses came out.
“I was losing blood and could feel I was losing
consciousness. I remember him talking on the phone saying that I was lying on the
ground but was alive.
After a while Oricious then returned with the police, who
also started asking me questions. He told them that I had tried to rob him, but
I am shocked at those allegations. An ambulance then came and ferried me to
hospital, where I woke up to find myself in hospital in the ICU under police
guard,” said Moyo.
Moyo’s family speaking through their spokesperson Mr
Roderick Pedzisai Moyo, said they had been aware that his wife was seeing
another man, as she had been spotted on countless times at different spots.
“There was a time she was spotted with Oricious at a city
braai spot and she panicked and left in a huff. We have tried to reach out to
her as a family to find out what’s going on but she has been shutting us out.
We asked her where she was when her husband was shot and said she was home.
What is funny is that she claims to have been home the whole day yet she was at
work and people saw her there,” said Roderick.
He said concerning the request by her husband that she does
not visit him in hospital was entirely on his own cognisance.
“She came to the hospital and was acting dramatic demanding
that some people not visit him. That is when she told hospital staff and some
other relatives that he didn’t want her anywhere near him. She is the writer of
her own fate and should not blame anyone for her short comings,” said Roderick.
Contacted for comment Mrs Chesigelenaso (Banda) Moyo
accused the media of trying to ruin her life and marriage.
“How could you make me wait outside the hospital, had I
known it was you people in there I would have made a scene. You have no right
in talking to my husband. You left him in a critical condition, I don’t know
what you were telling him there but whatever happens is all on you,” she fumed.
Asked about her whereabouts on the night in question, she
declined to comment. In a story published by the Chronicle, Moyo
was accused of trying to rob Oricious with the aide of two accomplices. His
lawyer, Mr Zibusiso Ncube of Ncube and Partners in a report confirmed that his
client shot Moyo, after he had attempted to rob him.
“Yes I can confirm that my client was attacked by three
robbers who pounced on him demanding cash. In defence, he shot one of them. As
they attacked him, he managed to lock the door to his car but the two who later
escaped continued to bang the door, ordering him to open it. One of the three
men jumped onto the passenger seat which my client had failed to lock and
demanded cash. He tried to drive off but because of the continued scuffle, he
drew a gun and shot the robber who was in the car,” said Mr Ncube.
The lawyer said he could not comment on allegations that
the shooting could have been triggered by a matter concerning adultery
allegations against one of the men involved in the incident.
“Concerning the other side of the story on adultery, I am
not aware of that part, maybe it has since emerged as investigations proceed. I
cannot refute nor confirm that,” said Mr Ncube.
He said he was not sure if the alleged robbers had been
armed or not.
“I would not want to say much as the issue is still under
investigation and we may jeopardise investigations,” said Mr Ncube.
Bulawayo police said investigations were underway.
“I can confirm that a man was shot in an attempt to
allegedly rob a motorist. He was shot once in the ribs and is admitted in
hospital where he is receiving treatment under police guard,” said Bulawayo
police spokesperson Inspector Precious Simango last week. Sunday news
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