Former Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) Governor Gideon Gono’s advisor Munyaradzi Kereke’s personal chauffeur Privilege Maturure yesterday appeared at the Harare Magistrates’ Court charged with allegedly forging a medical affidavit in a bid to convince the court to convict two RBZ security officers.
Maturure (37) was arraigned alongside his friend Brian Dube (37), and both men were not asked to plead when they appeared before magistrate Tayengwa Chibanda, who remanded them out of custody to June 28 for trial.
The complainant in the matter was cited as Liberty Gono, the prosecutor who dealt with the trial of the then accused George Nyahuye and Philip Dendere, who were both acquitted on a charge of allegedly attacking Kereke’s chauffeur.
Prosecutor Ressie Nyamombe presented that sometime last month, Maturure attended a court hearing as the complainant and a medical affidavit was produced through him showing the degree of injuries he sustained after the alleged assault.
During the trial it was then discovered that the medical report was fake and investigations led to the arrest of a bogus doctor Jacob Chiweshe who has since been convicted on the same issue.
The State alleges that after being convicted Chiweshe implicated Maturure and Dube as the brains behind the source of the fake medical affidavit.
Chiweshe told the police that the two men approached him at Mombeyarara Bar in Mabvuku with an already stamped medical affidavit which simply needed to be completed. Chiweshe said he was also promised a huge reward for his effort.
The court heard the medical affidavit was then signed in the name of a practising medical doctor, Johannes Marisa, who disowned the fraudulent document prompting further investigations leading to the alleged culprits’ arrest.
