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Sango Border post head jailed 2 years for smuggling guns

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Sango Border post head jailed 2 years for smuggling guns

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Garikai Mafirakureva

Mirror Reporter

Chiredzi – Sango Border Post principal immigration officer, Wilbert Muneri (36) has been jailed two years for smuggling six high-calibre rifles out of the country.

Chiredzi magistrate Brian Munyaradzi sentenced Muneri together with an accomplice Kennedy Ainos Mutanhaurwa (31) to the same number of years.

Muneri and Mutanhaurwa, a second-hand clothes dealer, were arrested at a boom gate in Gonarezhou National Park after they were found with the weapons. 

Moreblessing Rusere representing the State said that the two travelled in a Mazda B2200 to Sango Border Post using the Rutenga-Sango Road. They passed a number of security checkpoints and were arrested on the last boom gate as they exited Gonarezhou. 

Muneri told Police during interrogation that they were taking the rifles to a Mozambican national known as Mateus Bertel Novela, whom he befriended in 2015.

Muneri said the Mozambican is a sports agent who comes to Zimbabwe from time to time to scout for football talent.

In November 2020, Novela instructed Muneri to go to Rutenga to meet someone who was going to give him “something” and he would be paid for the service. The deal went on well and he was given five pistols wrapped in a sack by one Clive Kadangure from Harare. He transported the consignment and was given Mozambican meticais equivalent to US$500.

Muneri said at some stage he was given six rifles by one Wonder Kwaramba, a former member of the Zimbabwe Republic Police Support Unit. They successfully delivered them to Novela, whom they met at an illegal crossing point along the Zimbabwe-Mozambique border and were paid.

On March 11, 2021, Kadangure, who supplied the first consignment, was supposed to bring another consignment, but failed because he had to attend to a funeral.

He then called Muneri on March 15, 2021 informing him that he was bringing the consignment on the same day. Kadangure allegedly handed over six rifles to Muneri and Mutanhaurwa at Mukambi turn-off along Rutenga-Sango Road, a few hours before the pair’s arrest in Gonarezhou National Park

Kadangure was arrested in Chinhoyi and appeared in court separately.https://masvingomirror.com

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