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Careless professional hunter in trouble for leaving gun in hotel room
11 Mar 2015 at 06:04hrs | Views
The professional hunter employed by Kalulu Safaris based at Matetsi Game Lodges at Kazungula Road in Victoria Falls is in trouble after he forgot his service fire arm a 9mm FN Browning pistol serial number 05302 loaded with a magazine of eight rounds of ammunition in a hotel room where he booked for the night in Bulawayo recently.
Mariet Mashonganyika (44) was not asked to plead to contravening section 25 (2) of the Fire arms act Chapter 10:09 when he appeared before Bulawayo senior magistrate Sibongile Msipa Marondedze.
The magistrate further remanded him out of custody for trial.
Allegations against him are that on February 6 this year, Mashonganyika booked in the standard Hotel room Kenya 1 20A along Joshua Mqabuko Nkomo Street in Bulawayo where he slept. On February 7 at 7am he booked out of the hotel room and left behind his fire arm on a pedestal on the left side of the bed he was using.
On the same day at 8am Mongiwa Nkomo who is employed at the hotel as a cleaner discovered the firearm and reported the matter to the police. Investigations led to Mashonganyika's arrest.
Source - Byo24News