Stanley Musekiwa (46) from ZRP CID Stores, Takaidza Mugwisi
(36) from CID Stores and Masimba Stanely Gwasunda (43), ZRP CID Stores were
facing theft and malicious damage to property when they appeared before Harare
magistrate Mrs Marehwanazvo Gofa.
Musekiwa is an Inspector and is the Officer In Charge of
CID Stores and Business Harare.
Mugwisi and Gwasunda are subordinates of Musekiwa.
It is the State’s case that on June 23 2023 Mugwisi
recovered cash amounting to US$40 500 from one Carlington Gengezha who had
committed unlawful entry and theft in Belvedere, Harare. The recovered cash and
US$5 000 which had been recovered in different cases were taken into possession
by Musekiwa the Officer In Charge and he handed it to Gwasunda who is the
Exhibit Officer.
Musekiwa and Gwasunda who were supposed to place the money
in a safe at CID Homicide Harare for safekeeping after being instructed by
Deputy Director Crime CID Zimbabwe (name not given) instead stashed the cash
into a four-plate stove oven drawer which was in office 26 CID Stores and
Business Harare.
On August 6 2023 Mugwisi was deployed on night guard duties
securing CID offices that include the exhibit room.
On the same date at around 1 am the three accused persons
took advantage of darkness after an electrical fault at Harare Central Police
Station and proceeded to office 26.
They stage-managed a break-in by cutting the padlock keys
that secure the screen gate using a bolt cutter to cut while in actual fact
they used keys to open the door to gain entry. They opened the four-plate stove
oven drawer which was securing the cash and stole it and yet to be quantified
exhibits before they set the room alight thereby destroying several other
exhibits comprising of two four-plate stoves, a fridge, a bed, various
clothing, several crates of beer, cellphones, several televisions, radios and
gas tanks.
The fire caused extensive structural damage to the building
and the value of the destroyed exhibits and building is yet to be quantified.
Herald
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