TWO soldiers and three civilian accomplices have been locked up in remand cells pending trial for allegedly arming themselves with logs and pouncing on three Gokwe residents’ homes and robbing them of cash amounting to $9 969. SILAS NKALA STAFF REPORTER
Tinashe Muguti (27) of 5.3 Infantry Battalion Battle Fields in Kwekwe, Unity Mutsure (25) of 5.1 Infantry Battalion in Kwekwe, Junias Gandidze (25) a Sino Zim Cotton Company employee, Hebert Hakurotwi (43) of Amaveni in Kwekwe and Kevin Gous (33) of Chegutu were not asked to plead to robbery when they appeared before Gokwe resident magistrate Shepherd Mjanja, who remanded them in custody to August 6.
It was the State’s case that on July 10 at around 1.30pm, the five went to Copper Queen business centre in Gokwe North driving an Isuzu KB300 registration number AXC 5825 armed with logs and stones.
They went to Manwa Kudzanai’s house where they broke the doors down to gain entry before demanding cash from him. They robbed him of $5 550 and a Sumsung Galaxy phone.
They proceeded to Talent Makore’s house and allegedly robbed him of $2 288 before going on to rob Precious Chishumba of $1 154 at her house and then fled.
A report was made to the police and investigations led to the arrest of the five.
