Mohadi threatens to kills foreign investor's employee

HOME Affairs minister Kembo Mohadi has been accused of storming the Beitbridge Police Station threatening to kill Barbra Lunga, an employee of Red Queen, a South African company which he has been trying to grab since last year.

Mohadi has been trying to seize the property from Beitbridge businessman Reginald McGillivray Dawson, who set up the enterprise together with his wife Jane using their personal funds.

According to reports by a daily paper today, Mohadi allegedly threatened to kill Lunga for attempting to sell the property as advised by the court.

 "I was then surprised late in the afternoon/early evening of Friday 26th September 2014 to receive a call from a person, who identified himself as the first respondent (Mohadi), who sounded very angry and rumbled on at length that Stand 1418 belonged to him personally and that he would not allow anybody else to take possession of it.

"I pointed out to him that the aforesaid stand was not registered in his name and perusals of the documents show that this stand is, in fact, registered in the name of Red Queen Trading (Pvt) Ltd.

"I also pointed out to him that these issues had ventilated and finalised in the courts.

"I then received a report from Never Ndlovu, a director of AfricOil, advising that he had received reports that the five respondents had acted in a way that deprived me of my control and possession of stand 1418 and stand 1419 and other assets on stands 1418 and 1419," Lunga said.

In his supporting affidavit, Craig Hunter Pott, who was acting on behalf of the investors AfricOil Petroleum, told the court that Mohadi threatened to kill him the same way he killed white men during the liberation struggle.

"I was also instructed to report to the dispol (district police commander) at Beitbridge Police Station during the course of the day," he said.

"I went to the police station accompanied by my legal representative Winston Tshakalisa.

"Upon arrival at the police station, I presented myself to the dispol. After that I was taken downstairs to see Chief Superintendent (Patrick) Majuta where he took my statement.

"While my statement was being taken, first respondent (Mohadi) stormed into the office and confronted me asking who I was.

"The first respondent advised me that he had killed white men during the liberation war and he could do the same to me.

"He further claimed that the property was his and that I was attempting to strip assets from the aforesaid property. After the first respondent threatened and almost assaulted my legal representative, he turned on me again and stated with a pointing finger that he was going to deal with me."

Pott said he was terrified by Mohadi's actions as the threats were made at a police station in the presence of senior police officers with impunity.

Ndlovu, a director with AfricOil Petroleum, in his affidavit supporting Lunga's application confirmed that they had bought the company from the liquidator.

"It will be seen that the purchase for the assets is $2,3 million and we have already disbursed a fair amount being $169 000 and we intend to release the outstanding balance within the next few weeks to the applicant (Lunga) in terms of the sale agreement," said Ndlovu.

"The actions of the five respondents as described by Pott are highly prejudicial to AfricOil Petroleum (Pvt) Ltd in terms of the monies already disbursed and also the large sum of monies which is immediately available and is about to be disbursed to the applicant.

"I, therefore, support in its entirety the application filed by the applicant."

AfricOil Petroleum has already paid a combined $56 000 to the Zimbabwe Energy Regulatory Authority, Environment Management Agency and Zimbabwe Investment Authority to operate the business.