Barbara Makaya, 40, together with her alleged husband
misrepresented herself to a local real estate agent that they were Netsai
Patience Garati and Malvern Mupedzi.
The two placed an advert of their intention to sell the
house in local newspapers before approaching a real estate agent to market the
house for them.
An official from the estate agency told H-Metro that they
later discovered that the national identification of the two looked different
from their faces leading to the arrest.
“Today we have learnt a lesson that verification of
identity particulars is important because this couple submitted national
identification of a Zimbabwean couple based in South Africa,” said the
official.
“How they managed to access their national identification
cards and photocopied them remains worrying considering that their potential
buyer nearly lost US$22 000 they wanted to pay as deposit and the remainder by
the end of January 2021.
“We checked for the authenticity of their national identity
cards with a Facebook page and discovered that their faces were darker than the
real names of owners of the house.
“After contacting the real owners and got satisfied that
Makaya and her husband wanted to sell someone’s house we lodged a police report
against them leading to their arrest,” said the official.
Their victim thanked the real estate agency together with
Avondale police for saving them from losing US$22 000.
The two claimed to be a couple and are currently detained
at Avondale police station – RRB 4628193.
Meanwhile, two notorious Chitungwiza fraudsters who
allegedly sold other people’s land using fake identity cards face arrest on
sight after they jumped bail and failed to turn up for their trial on charges
of defrauding buyers of US$52 000.
The warrant of arrest for Emmerson Chigonyati (46) and
Enoss Gwangwadza (23) was issued by Harare provincial magistrate Vongai
Muchuchuti recently after they failed to appear in court for trial.
The duo was out on $5 000 bail each.
It is alleged that sometime in June this year the two
connived with two others to defraud home-seekers and they flighted an advert in
The Herald for the sale of a Mandara stand which ended up in them duping a
Harare man. H Metro
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