ZRP Officer Victimised over Mutodi Investigation
A Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP) constable who opened a docket and investigated ZANU PF Bikita South MP Energy Mutodi has been transferred.
Mutodi is under investigation for allegedly shooting at CCC supporters during campaigns ahead of the 23 August elections has been transferred and his phone confiscated by his superiors.
The Source reported that Tapiwa Chiweshe has not only been transferred from Bikita but the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (ZEC) has apparently withheld his allowances.
Chiweshe has since written a letter to ZEC querying the non-payment of his dues.
He took up Mutodi’s case after all other police officers at his station had refused to deal with the matter.
On Friday, 09 September, police officers from Masvingo Criminal Investigations Department (CID) Law and Order presented a warrant of seizure to Chiweshe and seized his cellphone.
ZRP Officer Victimised over Mutodi Investigation
They accused him of supplying information to the media.Masvingo Police Provincial spokesperson, Inspector Kudakwashe Dhewa, was reportedly not in the office but promised The SOURCE to look into the matter.
Detective Sergeant Ropafadzo Takaendesa and Detective Elikhayi Khanye seized Chiweshe’s cellphone, accusing him of violating Section c/s 4(j)(i)(c) of the official Secret Act Chapter 11:09.
The seized cellphone is expected to be handed over to cyber scientists to see if it has any links to media people.
