GARIKAI MAFIRAKUREVA

BIKITA – An aide to newly appointed Chief Mkanganwi (born Vengai Chapwanya) has been accused of extorting money from a family that is in a wrangle over the post of a village head.
Munyaradzi Warure who is not only an aide but now acts as the chief because Chapwanya is too old is accused of collecting more than US$200 from the Mukarati brothers after promising to settle the feud among members of the Mukarati family over the position of village head of Mukarati Village.
It is allegedly almost two years now and nothing has happened.
Warure allegedly promised to take the matter to the Chief and the District Development Co-ordinator, Bernard Hadzirabwi for resolution.
Hadzirabwi told The Mirror that the matter was never brought to him and promised to find out from Warure what was going on.
Warure refused to comment and told the paper to write whatever it wanted.
“You can write whatever you want, I don’t care. If there is any aggrieved party he should report to the police” said Warure before hanging up.
“I am going to call Warure and ask his position, but one thing I know for sure, we never discussed anything like that with him,” said Hadzirabwi.
Mukarati said Warure who is also the chief’s nephew demanded over US$250 from the family to facilitate the resolution of a family fight over the post of village head.
“He initially asked for US$50 for him to deal with the case and US$25 for fuel. When we paid, another aide demanded US$75 claiming Warure did not share with him the first payment.
“He then took another US$100 but it’s over a year now since we paid that money.
“When we tried to make a follow up he started coming up with flimsy charges against our family members. In the past month two members were dragged before the chief’s court and one of them had to spend the weekend in police cells. All this abuse of power is meant to silence us. I think Zacc should investigate this case,” said Mukarati.