YESTERDAY, we published the story of a Harare woman and her nephew who are facing allegations of concealing firearms that were used in the Mukuru Money Transfer armed robberies.Tamara Tikiza and Shepard Maisiri were not asked to plead when they appeared before Harare magistrate Ruth Moyo.They are being charged with unlawful possession of firearms and ammunition.The court heard that on Friday, detectives from CID Homicide Harare were tipped that Clever Chada ordered his wife, Erinita Chingosho, to hide several firearms which were used during the commissioning of several crimes.Chada was arrested in January in connection with a spate of armed robberies in and around Harare, targeting Mukuru Money Transfer outlets.The police were tipped that the firearms were taken to Tikiza’s home for safe keeping.Acting on the tip-off, detectives raided Tikiza’s home on Saturday and questioned her.She confirmed receiving the firearms from Chingosho and was ordered to hide the guns.She told the police that she took the firearms to Maisiri’s home.She led the police to his home and they dug up a black plastic bag containing an AUT 6.5mm pistol serial number B309360, a Browning pistol serial number 249567 and a Patented Colt pistol serial number 06309 from Maisiri’s garden.Well done to our police force for the excellent work in cracking this criminal enterprise and getting the links which has led them to the recovery of these firearms.This shows that a lot of good work is being done by our police force to crush these criminal syndicates which have been terrorising both individuals and companies.The police knew that just arresting the suspects was not the end of their investigations but the beginning of their probe and this is what has led them to the garden where the firearms were hidden.The arrest of the two also sends a powerful message that those who are helping criminals will also pay for doing that.It’s important for people to be reminded that helping criminals also comes with a heavy price and those who are doing that will also see the law catching up with them.We can’t let armed robbers and their criminal enterprises rule our country.They must be crushed and we are happy that we have a police force that is determined to make sure that is what will surely happen.The crew which was robbing the Mukuru Money Transfer outlets believed that it had found a way to beat the system and, with a helping hand from their relatives, they came up with a criminal enterprise where even the guns could be hidden in a garden.What they didn’t know is that we have dedicated police officers who are determined to crush such evil enterprises.And now, even those who were assisting them from a distance, have also been arrested.These people played as big a role as the actual armed robbers who carried the guns and raided the outlets. YESTERDAY, we published the story of a Harare woman and her nephew who are facing allegations of concealing firearms that were used in the Mukuru Money Transfer armed robberies. Tamara Tikiza and Shepard Maisiri were not asked to plead when they appeared before Harare magistrate Ruth Moyo.
They are being charged with unlawful possession of firearms and ammunition. The court heard that on Friday, detectives from CID Homicide Harare were tipped that Clever Chada ordered his wife, Erinita Chingosho, to hide several firearms which were used during the commissioning of several crimes. Chada was arrested in January in connection with a spate of armed robberies in and around Harare, targeting Mukuru Money Transfer outlets.
The police were tipped that the firearms were taken to Tikiza’s home for safe keeping. Acting on the tip-off, detectives raided Tikiza’s home on Saturday and questioned her. She confirmed receiving the firearms from Chingosho and was ordered to hide the guns.
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She told the police that she took the firearms to Maisiri’s home. She led the police to his home and they dug up a black plastic bag containing an AUT 6.5mm pistol serial number B309360, a Browning pistol serial number 249567 and a Patented Colt pistol serial number 06309 from Maisiri’s garden. Well done to our police force for the excellent work in cracking this criminal enterprise and getting the links which has led them to the recovery of these firearms.
This shows that a lot of good work is being done by our police force to crush these criminal syndicates which have been terrorising both individuals and companies. The police knew that just arresting the suspects was not the end of their investigations but the beginning of their probe and this is what has led them to the garden where the firearms were hidden.
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