A DRIVER from Kuwadzana 7 in Harare employed by CAG Traveller Coaches plying the Binga-Bulawayo route appeared in court for fraudulently using his late brother’s driver’s licence.
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This was heard when Luke Muchirawondo (36) appeared before Binga resident magistrate Stephen Ndlovu facing a count of driving without a licence and of forging a driver’s licence.
He pleaded guilty to the charge and is now assisting police with investigations as to how he obtained the fake document.
Prosecutor Bruce Maphosa told the court that on July 23, Muchirawondo was nabbed at Manjolo business centre driving the CAG Traveller Coaches bus with a fake driver’s licence.
It was the State’s case that Muchirawondo was driving the bus to Bulawayo from Binga centre at around 7.30pm and racing with a Zimbabwe United Passengers Company (Zupco) bus for passengers along the way.
His bus was sideswiped by the Zupco bus at the business centre and police attended to the scene.
The police asked the two drivers for their licences and that was when Muchirawondo then produced a disc with the name of his late brother Bornwell Chawoma but bearing his face.
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However, Sergeant Nyamawere, who had previously arrested him before the accident for assault, raised the anomaly after recalling that his identity card and passport identified him as Muchirawondo.
The cop then asked him to produce his identity card and he gave him his passport bearing his real name.
The Binga police then investigated and approached the Registry offices in Binga and asked officials to produce both Muchirawondo and Chawoma’s identity particulars.
It was then discovered that Chawoma died in February 2013.
