NRZ employees in trouble over ZW$932 900

TWO National Railways of Zimbabwe (NRZ) employees are in trouble over more than ZW$932 900 which they allegedly defrauded a former employee who was being compensated every month after he incurred injuries while on duty in 1994.

The matter, which has been pending at the courts for a long time under unclear circumstances, resumed last week in Bulawayo.

The two employees Charles Marufu (61) of Chief Nembudziya's area in Gokwe, who was employed by NRZ as compensation clerk and Lovemore Mutakiwa (59) of Greenhill in Bulawayo, who is employed as receiving cashier by the parastatal, appeared before Bulawayo magistrate Gladmore Mushove charged with fraud.

They denied the charge and the magistrate remanded them out of custody to October 23 for continuation of trial.

This was after the State, represented by Jeremiah Mutsindikwa called the victim of the fraud, Josphat Stephen Moyo, to testify in court.

Moyo of Nkulumane had told the court that he was injured while on duty sometime in 1994 and the two defrauded him of his compensation following the accident.