Police officers recently arrested on allegations of abuse
of office and bribery over their handling of the investigation into the illegal
sale of stands in Kuwadzana in a US$1 million scam have been reassigned to the
reserve pool.
The pool is a convenient place to post officers who cannot
hold any specific function, or who have to be kept away from active duties
pending disciplinary proceedings.
The four are deputy director for the police CID commercial
crimes unit Assistant Commissioner Obeylaw Moyo (47), Detective Assistant
Inspector Claudious Majonga (37), Detective Constable Aaron Karuru (32), and a
fourth officer on the run.
The Herald has it on good authority that Asst Comm Moyo and
Superintendent Naboth Nyachega, who are also on remand over Harare land issues,
were transferred from the CID to Police General Headquarters (PGHQ) reserve
along with Chief Supt H Dube who was transferred from PGHQ Transport and
Logistics.
Five other senior officers were transferred to various
departments within the police force as part of the restructuring, although many
of those transfers are normal reassignments for duty police officers who rarely
spend more than a few years in a particular post or even the same unit.
The transfers are with effective from last Wednesday. National police spokesperson Assistant Commissioner Paul
Nyathi said there was nothing unusual about transfers within the police
services.
“There is nothing sinister about transfers. Transfers are
part of the police work and there is need to rotate officers. The
Commissioner-General of Police has a prerogative to make transfers,” he said.
The Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission (ZACC) recently
arrested chief public prosecutor Clement Chimbare, who was implicated in the
matter, together with some of the police officers and it was alleged that they
were paid off with housing stands for not arresting or not charging suspected
kingpins in the scam.
There is evidence that they were allocated stands in
Westlea, the new middle-income suburb of Harare, using waiting list numbers
already given to others.
Another senior police officer, Supt Nyachega, and two
Harare City Council officials — human resources director and former housing
director, Matthew Marara, and housing assistant Aaron Taerera — were also
arrested over the case. Herald
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