More Drama Unfolds As Mutumbuka Loses $600k Mansion – “Buyer Appears to be Well Connected”
Harare | According to Harison Marange, the man who purportedly used fake title deeds to purchase Zimbabwe’s first Minister of Education, Dr. Dzingai Mutumbuka, for US$600,000, has a lot of connections. However, this week, Marange distanced himself from the transaction and claimed that a cousin of his shares the same name actually purchased the house.
It also turned out that the seller of the house, Jonah Ngome, is missing, and the Sheriff completed the deed of transfer at the former Justice Chinamhora’s request.
Ngome has never shown up in court to argue that he was the property’s true owner and sale.
Marange, who is shown in a group photo with Vice President Constantine Chiwenga in the dilapidated Munhumutapa office, begged The Mirror not to publish the story, claiming that it would worsen his condition while he was receiving dialysis.
The two women in the photo, Evelyn Chakuinga and Brylyne Chitsunge, are thought to be Chiwenga’s nieces, as is the businessman Frank Buyanga.
Marange informed The Mirror that the buyer of Dr. Mutumbuka’s property, Harrison Marange, was located in the UK and that he would provide the newspaper with his cell phone or offer the buyer’s writer’s number so that he could contact.
By the time Marange went to press, neither the aforementioned Harrison call nor had he supplied the writer’s mobile number.
Marange stated that because Harrison Marange was their grandfather’s name, three cousins in the family go by that name.
Nonetheless, the author demonstrated that Marange’s cellphone number matches the one listed for the buyer in court filings.
Marange acknowledged having met Vice President Chiwenga, but this was just due of the several schools he had constructed in Muzarabani.
The house was not purchased by me. I share the same name as my cousin who lives in the United Kingdom. Because it was the name of our grandfather, we are three persons with the same name.
The house’s buyer is younger than I am. So that you may talk, I’ll give you his number or I’ll give him yours.
What is the connection between the house issue and the fact that I am seen with the vice president?
Since I constructed several schools in Muzarabani, the Vice President and I were pictured together.
Marange stated, “I am seeing the doctor for dialysis because I have kidney failure.” It was unable to reach Chiwenga’s office or Presidential Spokesperson George Charamba to react.
The guy in the photo is, in fact, Harrison Marange, who ‘purchased’ Dr. Mutumbuka’s house, as Dr. Mutumbuka’s nephew Antony Muperi said.
He saw him in court many times, and because he was receiving dialysis, court dates occasionally had to be rescheduled.
Harrison Marange, the “buyer of Dr. Mutumbuka’s house,” is the man in the photo.
I had seen him a few times in court, and in fact, we had to reschedule a few sessions as he was starting dialysis, according to Muperi. “I know him very well; he’s attempting to hide behind a finger.
Our lawyer introduced me to him and his wife.
I am extremely familiar with him, therefore,” Muperi remarked. Fraudsters working along with deeds office employees falsified the title documents of Dr. Mu-tumbuka’s Chisipite home, which they then sold.
It was only after the transfers were underway at the High Court that Dr. Mutumbuka, a World Bank employee who resides in the United States, became aware of this.
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The alleged fraudsters who faked the title papers were taken into custody and are currently making court appearances. On a technicality, Dr. Mutumbuka was removed from the residence last week.
Judge Chinamhora, who approved the property transfer, left the bench last month, shortly before the Judicial Service Commission was about to begin looking into possible corruption charges against him.
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Tatenda “Shaft” Wakatama (44), and Prosper Biziweck (43) are the individuals who are suspected of forging the documents. Marange received title deeds for the mansion for a mere US$40,000,000.
Allegations include that on June 22, 2021, the two, together with accomplices Jonah Ngome, Taurai Makata, Peter Chigayo, and Kenias Mutyasira—all of whom are still at large—forged the title documents of a Harare residence located at 90 Harare Drive, Chisipite. The property is registered under the name Mutum-buka, but is actually registered under Ngome.
Paradoxically, Marange petitioned the High Court, Case number HCH 4912/22, to have the transfer before the trial of the accused fraudsters was concluded in the magistrate’s court.
Source | The Mirror
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