Cops are investigating the late national heroine Shuvai
Mahofa's workers who allegedly looted goods from her properties soon after the
announcement of her death.
Although details are sketchy The Mirror established that
two of the workers have already appeared at Gutu Magistrates Court and they
were remanded out of custody.
The goods were stolen during Heroes' holidays barely 24
hours after the late Minister of State for Masvingo had died.
The Mirror is reliably informed that looted goods were
being moved from her properties into Mpandwana Growth Point where they were
going to be sold. Particularly affected is her farm in Lauder some few
kilometres from the growth point and that is where the first suspects were
nabbed.
Most of the looted goods were farming implements and of bags of fertiliser.
"It was a free for all particularly at her farm near
Mpandawana. Workers who have cars were using the vehicles to ferry the goods to
a house at Mpandawana Growth Point. The general hands used wheel barrows to
take goods to neighbouring farms," said a source who declined to be named.
The scam came out when a close aide visited the farm in the
wee hours of the morning and bumped into a worker arriving back into the
homestead with an empty wheelbarow. The aide could not get clear answers on
where the farm labourer was coming from at such odd hours. He however realised
that goods were being stashed at neighbouring farms.
Further investigations then established that more goods
were being ferried to the growth point using the late Mahofa's vehicle. Mahofa died on Monday last week and was buried at the
National Heroes Acre on Sunday. masvingo mirror
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