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Baba Jukwa saga: Cops to interview everyone mentioned
28 Jul 2014 at 08:11hrs | Views
POLICE yesterday said they were going to interview all the people who were recently mentioned by The Sunday Mail Editor Edmund Kudzayi, who is accused of being behind the faceless Facebook character Baba Jukwa.
Sources close to the investigations said they were still questioning Lieutenant-Colonel Kembo and Herbert Huruba who are assisting the investigations.
"It's not a witch-hunting exercise, but what we just want is to ascertain what was happening," said a police source.
"We will and we are going to interview all the people mentioned by Kudzayi."
According to the police, this was being done in terms of the law and in a professional manner.
Last Friday, police started questioning Lt-Col Kembo and Huruba, one of the designers of the Hovhorosi Style dress code in connection with the Baba Jukwa saga, as investigations into the case continued.
This comes after police investigating the case on Thursday last week asked Information, Media and Broadcasting Services Minister Professor Jonathan Moyo to help them in their investigations by submitting clarifications on issues to do with the case.
Environment, Water and Climate Minister Saviour Kasukuwere was on Saturday questioned by the police detectives over the case.
Several other senior officials were expected to be called in for questioning over the case, the police source said.
This followed allegations by Kudzayi, who is accused of being behind the faceless Facebook character, that he became aware of the Baba Jukwa issue when Minister Kasukuwere called him as an IT expert to assess and make an overview of information supplied by an Australian-based hacker only identified as Kennedy.
He said Kennedy had been brought to Minister Kasukuwere by Huruba.
Kudzayi said after making a report back to Minister Kasukuwere, he was referred to Prof Moyo who took him to the Ministry of Defence with whom he worked to expose the Baba Jukwa syndicate.
Kudzayi and his brother Philip have since appeared in court accused of attempting to subvert a constitutionally-elected government and undermining the authority of the President.
They are both out on bail with stringent conditions.
The Jukwa saga has sucked in 13 suspects, with police last week saying they were looking for the 13th suspect, Chawarika Matongorere, who is based in South Africa and accused of sourcing funds and posting subversive material on the Baba Jukwa page.
The other suspects are Wilf and Trish Mbanga, publishers of The Zimbabwean newspaper who are based in the UK; as well as the weekly newspaper's South Africa correspondent, Mxolisi Ncube; UK-based computer programmer Samson Chifamba; UK-based systems and software engineer Walter Shoko, George Chirakasha a Zimbabwean resident in the UK, as well as Anomie Drew, Piniel Nhokodi, Romeo Musemburi and Sarudzai Florence.
Sources close to the investigations said they were still questioning Lieutenant-Colonel Kembo and Herbert Huruba who are assisting the investigations.
"It's not a witch-hunting exercise, but what we just want is to ascertain what was happening," said a police source.
"We will and we are going to interview all the people mentioned by Kudzayi."
According to the police, this was being done in terms of the law and in a professional manner.
Last Friday, police started questioning Lt-Col Kembo and Huruba, one of the designers of the Hovhorosi Style dress code in connection with the Baba Jukwa saga, as investigations into the case continued.
This comes after police investigating the case on Thursday last week asked Information, Media and Broadcasting Services Minister Professor Jonathan Moyo to help them in their investigations by submitting clarifications on issues to do with the case.
Environment, Water and Climate Minister Saviour Kasukuwere was on Saturday questioned by the police detectives over the case.
This followed allegations by Kudzayi, who is accused of being behind the faceless Facebook character, that he became aware of the Baba Jukwa issue when Minister Kasukuwere called him as an IT expert to assess and make an overview of information supplied by an Australian-based hacker only identified as Kennedy.
He said Kennedy had been brought to Minister Kasukuwere by Huruba.
Kudzayi said after making a report back to Minister Kasukuwere, he was referred to Prof Moyo who took him to the Ministry of Defence with whom he worked to expose the Baba Jukwa syndicate.
Kudzayi and his brother Philip have since appeared in court accused of attempting to subvert a constitutionally-elected government and undermining the authority of the President.
They are both out on bail with stringent conditions.
The Jukwa saga has sucked in 13 suspects, with police last week saying they were looking for the 13th suspect, Chawarika Matongorere, who is based in South Africa and accused of sourcing funds and posting subversive material on the Baba Jukwa page.
The other suspects are Wilf and Trish Mbanga, publishers of The Zimbabwean newspaper who are based in the UK; as well as the weekly newspaper's South Africa correspondent, Mxolisi Ncube; UK-based computer programmer Samson Chifamba; UK-based systems and software engineer Walter Shoko, George Chirakasha a Zimbabwean resident in the UK, as well as Anomie Drew, Piniel Nhokodi, Romeo Musemburi and Sarudzai Florence.
Source - chronicle
