A ZIMBABWE National Army officer has been arrested on
charges of stealing three rolls of electricity overhead copper conductors
weighing 16kg in Bulawayo’s Luveve suburb.
Impi Svina (30) and his alleged accomplice, Bakhani Ndlovu
(23) were not asked to plead when they appeared before Bulawayo regional
magistrate Mafios Moyo on Thursday.
They were remanded in custody to February 17. Svina is
based at 1 Para Inkomo Barracks in Harare.
The court was told that on November 14, 2019 at around
midnight, Ndlovu and Svina tampered with electricity overhead copper conductors
in New Luveve by cutting 450 metres off the line.
It is alleged that on the same day and time Binzi Tafirenyika
(34), a police officer who resides in the area, was awakened by the sudden
electricity power cut which produced an awkward sound.
Tafirenyika peeped through the window and discovered that
the electricity pole near his place of residence had fallen down and that
electricity overhead copper conductors were hanging on that pole.
He then went to investigate and observed three people
pulling the electricity overhead copper conductors and making them into small
rolls.
He arrested Svina, who was rolling the copper conductors
while Ndlovu and another male person only known as Rasta, who is still at
large, ran away. Ndlovu was chased down and apprehended. Newsday
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