Wankie Sibanda (65) and Dickson Mumpande (48) both from
Binga under Chief Siabuwa were arrested by alert police detectives who had
gotten wind that the duo was selling the lion’s skin.
They were not asked to plead when they appeared before
Gokwe Magistrate Mr Hillary Ndlovu facing charges of contravening the Parks and
Wildlife Act. They were remanded out of custody to October 5 as they await a
Tonga interpreter.
Representing the State, Mr Tinashe Wazvaremhaka told the
court that sometime between June 6 and September 9, the two accused persons
hunted a lion near a dam in Binga and killed it.
They then tried to sell the skin as well as the teeth of
the lion.
“Police detectives got wind that the two accused were in
possession of a lion skin and contacted them purporting to be buyers. The
police detectives in the company of Zimbabwe Parks and Wildlife Authority
(Zimparks) rangers, then proceeded to Chitekete where they met with the Sibanda
and Mumpande,” said Mr Wazvaremhaka.
After agreeing a fee of US$2 800, Sibanda unknowingly led
the detectives and Zimparks rangers to where Mumpande was waiting with a 90kg
sack containing the lion skin and teeth.
The two accused people were subsequently arrested after
they failed to produce the required documents.
A lion skin weighing 4,6 kilogrammes, its fat weighing
1,025kg and 7 teeth were recovered and kept as exhibit. Chronicle
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