Below is a memo narrating how a soldier arrested a police officer over possession of minerals:

MEMORANDUM

TO                 :           CHIEF STAFF OFFICER [OPERATIONS]

INFOR :     COMMISSIONER GENERAL OF POLICE

                      :           DEPUTY COMMISSIONER GENERAL [OPERATIONS]

:           CHIEF STAFF OFFICER [HUMAN RESOURCES]

FROM           :           OFFICER COMMANDING POLICE [SUPPORT UNIT]

SU MEMO    :          1910/20

DATED          :           12 DECEMBER 2020

SUBJECT    : ARREST OF A MEMBER OF THE POLICE SERVICE FOR CRIMINAL ABUSE OF OFFICE AS A PUBLIC OFFICER AND TRANSPORTING GOLD ORE WITHOUT A LICENCE: NUMBER 049466R CHIEF INSPECTOR NCUBE B.: SUPPORT UNIT CHIKURUBI URBAN DISTRICT YANKEE TROOP.

 

1. On 12 December 2020 at around 0600 hours, Number 049466R Chief Inspector NCUBE B. of Yankee Troop who is deployed on Operation Chikorokoza Ngachipere/ Isitsheketsha Kasiphele and No to Machete Wielding Gangs in Jumbo Mine, Mazowe was arrested for Criminal abuse of office as a public officer as defined in Section 174 of the Criminal Law [Codification and Reform] Act Chapter 9:23 and Transporting gold ore without a licence.

• Circumstances are that, Chief Inspector NCUBE B. who was in civilian attire and armed with a Tokarev Pistol serial number ZRP 190 with a magazine of 7 rounds was travelling along Bindura – Harare Road in a Honda Fit vehicle registration number AFG 0053 being driven by Plan RANGISI National Registration Number 15-102429-H-15, a male aged 46 years of Jumbo Mine, Mazowe. Trust CHIPATARONGO National Registration Number 34-097149 S-34, a male aged 33 years of House Number 9009 Manyame Park, Chitungwiza was also aboard the same vehicle.

• On approaching Eskbank Tollgate, the Honda Fit vehicle was following behind a Toyota Fortuner vehicle registration number ADY 1780 being driven by Private Lameck KATIKITI, a male aged 29 years of Zimbabwe National Army [ZNA].  Aboard the Toyota Fortuner was a Zimbabwe National Army Security Patrol Team under the command of Sergeant George MUSONA of State House Barracks.

• At the tollgate, the Toyota Fortuner bypassed the tollgate and the Honda Fit vehicle followed and this prompted Sergeant George MUSONA to disembark from the vehicle and inquired from the driver of the Honda Fit vehicle why he was bypassing the tollgate. The 3 suspects’ responses could not satisfy the security patrol team. This led the ZNA members searching the Honda Fit Vehicle and recovered 2 sacks of suspected gold ore and subsequently arrested the 3 occupants; Chief Inspector NCUBE B. included.

• Sergeant MUSONA then advised Brigadier General MHONDA who instructed him to take the accused persons and exhibits to Marlborough Police Station. Plan RANJISI, the driver of the Honda fit alleged that he was hired by Chief Inspector NCUBE and Trust CHAPATARONGO to transport them with their gold ore from Jumbo to Harare.

• The accused persons were taken to Marlborough Police Station by ZNA patrol team; RRB Number 4605985 refers.

• The accused persons, exhibits, ZRP Pistol and a magazine of 7 rounds were taken to CID MFFU Harare; DR 18/12/20 refers.  The accused persons are detained at CID MFFU Harare.

• Disciplinary action is being taken against the Junior Officer.

ZRP SUPPORT UNIT