An extension
officer from the Agriculture and Rural Development Advisory Services, Ms
Kwanele Dube and a Grain Marketing Board contract employee, Mr Langton Ncube,
who were accompanying the truck after taking the stock from the Tsholotsho GMB
depot have also not been accounted for since January 4.
The truck,
which had 400 bags of 50kg Urea fertiliser, 30 bags of 10kg sunflower seeds and
100 bottles of 200ml Imidacloprid chemicals, was being accompanied by a police
officer identified as Abisinjo Mpofu.
Investigations
carried out indicated that the inputs were not signed for in the provisional
dispatcher book as the dispatcher book was full.
“We have not
been informed of any arrests nor recovery of the truck and its inputs,” said Mr
Tapiwa Zivovoi, Matabeleland North acting Director of Local government
services.
Sources said
the intriguing matter was now being handled by detectives from the Criminal
Investigations Department. Chronicle
