Correspondent|A soldier assigned to guard Vice-President Constantino Chiwenga’s Borrowdale Brooke residence was yesterday convicted of stealing from his boss’ neighbour.

Nyasha Mbudaya (25) pleaded guilty to a charge of theft when he appeared before Harare magistrate Regis Mutero who remanded him to today for sentencing.

The State said on October 15 this year, at around 10pm Mbudaya, who is assigned to the Presidential Guard unit, was deployed to carry out static guard duties at Chiwenga’s residence.

The following day around 2am, he broke into Vengai Guni’s house and stole steel reinforcements worth $2 000 and loaded them into his unregistered Mazda Demio vehicle.

But he was seen by Jainos Madzivire, a security guard who was on patrol in the area. Mbudaya was then stopped and searched at the main exit gate and found with the stolen property, leading to his arrest.