Mugabe kinsmen in land scam

The six family members who have been involved in illegal parcelling of land for money and cattle in Banket are actually President Robert Mugabe's kinsmen.

Luckymore (29), Learnmore (32), Gibson (45), Edwin (37) and Leonard Jenami (30) are all from the Chidziva family under the Gushungo clan.

Chief Zvimba, Stanley Mhondoro, yesterday confirmed that the Jenami people are indeed Gushungos under Chief Lancelot Chidziva, who is Chief Chidziva and is the father of one of the suspects, Gibson.

The nine have been remanded to October 27 on $50 bail each.

They face 11 counts of fraud emanating from their having allegedly sold land in Banket involving more than $15 000 and an undisclosed number of cattle.