National police spokesperson Assistant Commissioner Paul
Nyathi confirmed this significant development. Dube’s deportation from
Mozambique was due to his possession of fake identity and travel documents.
“The Zimbabwe Republic Police would like to confirm the
arrest of murder and attempted murder suspect, Peter Dube who has been deported
from Mozambique because of possessing fake national identity and passport
documents. A team of police detectives apprehended him at 1405 hours at Robert
Gabriel Mugabe International Airport upon arrival,” said Assistant Commissioner
Nyathi.
Dube, who was a Gweru-based businessman, was wanted in
connection with three counts of suspected murder, one attempted murder case and
violation of immigration laws. Dube, according to reports, allegedly shot his
second wife, her suspected lover and a female friend in Gweru in 2021 before
fleeing.
“Dube fled to South Africa before moving to Eswatini where
he acquired fake identity documents and travel documents after assuming the
name Xolile Mtsali. He used the fake documents to relocate to Ireland, where he
applied for asylum. After being apprehended in Ireland, he was subsequently
deported to Mozambique,” said Assistant Commissioner Nyathi.
While in Ireland, Dube was convicted of violating
immigration laws before being deported to Mozambique after he claimed to be a
citizen of that country and had assumed another alias; Armando Quenete
Muchanga. He is understood to have fraudulently acquired a passport wherein he
claimed to have been born on June 21, 1985.
He is set to appear in court soon to answer to two fatal
shootings and an attempted murder case in Gweru on April 23, 2021. Dube had
been in the custody of Mozambican authorities pending investigations into how
he acquired the passport that saw him assuming the new identity.
“He was using a passport with the name Armando Quenete
Muchanga with date of birth as June 21, 1985,” Assistant Commissioner Nyathi
said.
The Southern African Development Community has a protocol
on extradition of suspects among member states. According to Article 2 of the
protocol titled “Obligation to Extradite”, “each state party agrees to
extradite to the other, in accordance with the provisions of this protocol and
their respective domestic law, any person within its jurisdiction who is wanted
for prosecution or the imposition or enforcement of a sentence in the
Requesting State for an extraditable offence.”
On April 23, 2021, Dube, who was a car dealer, approached
his second wife, Nyasha Nharingo, and her suspected lover, Shelton Chinhango —
also a car dealer — who was seated in a minibus parked outside a flat in
Gweru’s central business district, where she lived.
He then allegedly fatally shot Shelton at close range
before turning the gun on his second wife’s best friend, Gamuchirai Mudungwe,
whom he also shot in the chest, killing her instantly. Dube allegedly went on
to shoot Nyasha and her sister Nyaradzo, who were later rushed to hospital.
He was arrested in Ireland on June 14 this year at a
refugee facility in Dublin, before being convicted by the Dublin District Court
for violating that country’s immigration laws. Chronicle
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