News of the South HARARE – Former Zanu PF Political Commisar and G40 King-pin Saviour Kasukuwere was arrested yesterday morning after he turned himself over to police in the company of his lawyer, Johnathan Samukange.
Kasukuwere who was detained at Rhodesville Police Station where he spent the night is being charged with alleged four counts of abuse of office and he will appear in court today.
There has been speculation that investigators are trying to link him to an alleged assassination attempt on President Emmerson Mnangagwa in June after a bomb exploded at a Zanu PF Rally at White City Stadium in Bulawayo.
Samukange said the first three charges were allegedly committed during Kasukuwere’s tenure as Minister of Local Government, Public Works and National Housing while the other count has been alleged to have been committed when he was serving as Minister of Youth Development, Indigenisation and Economic Empowerment.
In the fourth charge, Kasukuwere is reported to have corruptly awarded a tender to a company called Brainworks Capital.
“My client arrived from South Africa yesterday (Sunday)and we communicated with the police and agreed to hand him over to them today (Monday) in the morning and the agreed time was 8:30am.
“We handed him to the Uniform Branch Special Anti-Corruption Unit where they recorded his warned and cautioned statement on criminal abuse of office charges.
“From there we proceeded to the National Prosecuting Authority and spent hours there,” Samukange said.
He added that they were told that there were other issues police needed to attend to in respect of the allegations hence he was taken back to the police which saw him being held at Rhodesville Police Station.
The three counts Kasukuwere is being charged with are related to land issues involving former First Lady Grace Marufu-Mugabe’s sister Shuvai Gumbochuma who appeared in court recently on three counts of fraud.
Speculations that investigators want to link Kasukuwere to assassination attempts on President Mnangagwa were aroused by him leaving the country on June 25, two days after the explosion at White City Stadium and when police went to his home early in July they found him gone.
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