1.4
On numerous occasions, he visited Chiredzi Police Station looking for
Inspector Hondo. However, he was unable to meet Inspector Hondo and
was only able to speak to him on the telephone. At one point, he was
directed to a policeman called Constable Zireva, who redirected him to
Inspector Hondo. He further alleges that he never got to meet Inspector
Hondo who however, assured him through their telephone conversation
that once he was needed, he would be called in. This frustrated the
victim.
1.5
After these incidents, unidentified people came to his house at night and
threatened to set his house on fire and they further threw stones on top
of his roof. These threats coupled with the reluctance of the local police
to clearly investigate the allegations of arson, induced fear in the victim
and he escaped with his wife to live with relatives.
1.6
The victim further states that since he was no longer able to fend for
himself and his family, he decided to go to South Africa where he
managed to secure informal employment. After spending some time in
South Africa, he thought of coming back to Zimbabwe to collect his wife
so that they could go back to South Africa together.
1.7
On the day that he arrived in Zimbabwe, he found Inspector Dhowa and
Captain Gono who were armed and produced pistols waiting for him at
Renco turn off. They asked him if he was Kariborn Nyemba and when
he refused to confirm his identity, another man who had disembarked
from the same public transport he had used confirmed that he was
indeed Kariborn Nyemba. This gave the victim the idea that the man who
confirmed his identity had been trailing him and was working in cahoots
with Captain Gono and Inspector Dhowa.
1.8
Captain Gono and Detective Inspector Dhowa forcibly took him to Harare
in Captain Gono’s Mercedes Benz vehicle and instructed him to report
that his brother Simba (the first complainant), one Hwarare and himself
had set fire to the ZISMWU offices. Further, that his brother and his allies
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