Precila Takabvirakare
A female Gutu police officer recently appeared before magistrate Mandlenkosi Ndlovu facing allegations of stealing cash amounting to US$ 3 700.
Horinda Gwendoline (34) stationed at ZRP Gutu Camp is being charged with theft and was remanded out of custody to January 28 for trial.
It is the State’s case as presented by Kudakwashe Muza that sometime in February 2021, Gwendoline told Talent Gwarazimba that she was part of a savings club with 12 members in which each member would pay a minimum monthly premium of US$100 before inviting her to join the club and replace one Mrs Gonamombe who was having difficulties in paying her premiums.
On March 27, 2021 Gwarazimba was admitted into the savings club and gave Gwendoline a sum of US$300 which was supposed to be given to Mrs Mukaro as it was her turn to receive the club contributions.
On April 24, 2021 Gwarazimba was transferred to ZRP Ngundu and she gave Gwendoline US$400 which was supposed to be given to a certain Mrs Mahofa.
It is also alleged that on May 29 Gwarazimba came from Ngundu to Gutu and handed over US$400 to the accused who was supposed to hand it over to club members in a club meeting and the club contributions were supposed to be handed over to a Mrs Nyati.
Sometime in June 2021, Gwarazimba instructed Gwendoline to collect US$300 from Samuel Dhoro and another US$100 from Gabula Samukele that she was supposed to be handed over to a Mrs Chikande.
On July 31 2021, Gwarazimba gave Gwendoline US$400 which was supposed to be handed over to a Mrs Munatsi.
On August 20 2021 at Ngundu, Gwarazimba gave US$600 to one Anyway, a cross border trader and instructed him to hand over the money to Charity Matimbire who was supposed to hand it over to Gwendoline.
Gwendoline then confirmed via WhatsApp messages that she did receive the money which was supposed to be handed over to a Mrs Kawasaga.
On September 17 2021 again at Ngundu, Gwarazimba gave US$600 to Anyway whom he instructed to give it to Matimbire who would in turn hand it over to Gwendoline.
It is further alleged that on October 22 at Ngundu, Gwarazimba gave US$600 to Anyway and instructed him to hand over the money to Matimbire before she handed it over to the accused who would deliver it for club contribution to Mwaengahama Kudakwashe.
On November 27 Gwarazimba then came to Gutu to attend a meeting since it was her turn to receive money from club contributions.
She was approached by Gabula Samukele who indicated that she was sent by Gwendoline to inform her that money from the contributions was not available since she had used all the money for her personal use.
Gwarazimba then confronted Mrs Kunyangwe and Mwaengehama to inquire about her contributions but the two indicated that Gwendoline did not handover her contributions to the club.
This led the matter to be reported to the police leading to Gwendoline’s arrest.
