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Pastor up for theft
22 Mar 2014 at 07:56hrs | Views
AN End Time Message pastor based in Chipinge was arraigned before Mutare Magistrates' Court to answer a theft charge involving household property worth $24 000.
Pastor David Jese Makombe appeared before senior magistrate Ms Enia Ndiraya on Tuesday.
It was the State's case, led by Mr Walter Saunyama, that on a date between January 11, 1999 and January 21, 1999, Makombe unlawfully took household property valued at $24 000 from complainant Mark Tuso Muchadeyi.
Apparently, the said incident occurred when Makombe had just acquired the complainants' house (Number 151, Modie Street, Chipinge) through an auction after the complainant had failed to settle a Sedco loan.
However, the court heard that Makombe then allegedly went on to evict Muchadeyi with the assistance of 10 youths and looted his movables in the house.
The property included four beds, a wardrobe, a dining table and chairs, lounge suite, bed linen, curtains, 10 suits, men's and women's shoes, ties, shirts, four-plate stove, television set, pots, pans, knives, kids' clothing, wheelbarrow, spade, rake, garden fork, four steel chainsaws, one brush cutter, four bowsaws, treated poles, four sickels, asbestos, tin houses, axes, machetes, hoes, slashers, chicken wire mesh, and a Lister diesel pump.
Makombe is set to reappear before the same court on Wednesday for continuation of trial.
Pastor David Jese Makombe appeared before senior magistrate Ms Enia Ndiraya on Tuesday.
It was the State's case, led by Mr Walter Saunyama, that on a date between January 11, 1999 and January 21, 1999, Makombe unlawfully took household property valued at $24 000 from complainant Mark Tuso Muchadeyi.
Apparently, the said incident occurred when Makombe had just acquired the complainants' house (Number 151, Modie Street, Chipinge) through an auction after the complainant had failed to settle a Sedco loan.
However, the court heard that Makombe then allegedly went on to evict Muchadeyi with the assistance of 10 youths and looted his movables in the house.
The property included four beds, a wardrobe, a dining table and chairs, lounge suite, bed linen, curtains, 10 suits, men's and women's shoes, ties, shirts, four-plate stove, television set, pots, pans, knives, kids' clothing, wheelbarrow, spade, rake, garden fork, four steel chainsaws, one brush cutter, four bowsaws, treated poles, four sickels, asbestos, tin houses, axes, machetes, hoes, slashers, chicken wire mesh, and a Lister diesel pump.
Makombe is set to reappear before the same court on Wednesday for continuation of trial.
Source - Manica Post
