Harare, (New Ziana) – Leaving a Chinhoyi clinic without power after stealing its solar panels and batteries has earned a 28-year-old man 4 years in jail.
According to the National Prosecuting Authority of Zimbabwe (NPAZ), Livingstone Chingaya (28) of Better Days Ruwa committed the crime on February 8 last year.
The State case was that on February 8 around 1 AM, Chingaya, in the company of three others that are still at large, cut the perimeter fence at Portlet Clinic in Chinhoyi, Mashonaland West province, and dismantled the solar system.
The quartet removed eight 350 Watts solar panels and four 12V batteries.
The commotion they made during the process awakened villagers who tracked the group’s motor vehicle which was parked along the Chinhoyi-Chegutu road where Chingaya was apprehended. Meanwhile the Mutare Magistrates’ Court fined Lornah Bhobho (35) US$400 or alternatively two months in prison for using a fake letter to import a motor vehicle under the public servants rebate scheme.
Bhobho of Chikanga, Mutare who is employed as a pharmacist in the Ministry of Health and Child Care, sometime in March without making any application to import a motor vehicle through the civil servants rebate facility, bought a Toyota Aqua in her name.
She proceeded to create a fake rebate letter with a fake ZIMRA reference purporting that she had been authorized by the Ministry of Finance and Economic Development to import her vehicle duty free.
The fake rebate letter resulted in the state suffering a prejudice of ZWL$4 264 625.17 in potential revenue.
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