KWEKWE — Peter Moyo, son of the late sungura musician Tongai Moyo, is reportedly embroiled in a bitter land dispute with a newly-resettled farmer, Emmanuel Madovi, whom he has accused of grabbing his father’s farming plot.
The two are locked in an ownership dispute over Plot 4 of Block 15 Sherwood which Moyo claims was allocated to his late father.
The “Young Igwe” as Peter is now popularly known, landed himself in trouble last December after he allegedly assaulted Madovi’s farm employee, Nobert Gwatsvaire and destroyed property at the farm after he found the latter tilling the disputed land.
Kwekwe district police spokesman Detective Sergeant Israel Mhondiwa confirmed that a report had been opened under case 305/12/11 of Kwekwe rural in which Moyo is being charged with assault and malicious damage to property.
“He faces charges of assault and malicious damage to property following the incident last year. This is a summons case and the docket has been forwarded to the courts. At the moment we don’t have the value of the property he destroyed since all the information is now at the courts,” said Mhondiwa.
According to police, the dispute started when the late musician allegedly ceded the property, an AI plot, after government pledged to allocate him an A2 farm.
However, when government failed to honour its end of the bargain, Moyo sought to repossess the plot, but died before the transaction was completed.
Government had already allocated the plot to Madovi, who is a member of the 5.1 Infantry Battalion.
