GWERU — A 36-year-old man from Harare has been ordered to pay $100 fine or spend two months in prison after he breached a rent-to-buy car deal he had entered into with a senior Central Intelligence Organisation (CIO) officer based in Gweru.
Stephen Chadenga Own Correspondent
The court heard that Elisha Mazhawidza of Marlborough, Harare, entered into a rent-to-buy agreement with Shepherd Mundenguma who works in the President’s Office in Gweru, but disappeared with the vehicle after failing to fulfil the deal. The parties had sealed the deal, which involved a Mercedes Benz vehicle, on October 15 2012.
The two agreed that Mazhawidza would pay a total of $12 000 but in six months’ installments from the 15th October. Mazhawidza deposited $1 000, but when he failed to pay installments on December 28 last year Mundenguma demanded the return of his car.
Mazhawidza did not return the car, but instead took it to a garage in Harare and on several occasions lied over the phone that he was on his way to Gweru.
This prompted Mundenguma to report the matter to the police.
The vehicle was recovered from a garage in Willowvale on January 17.
Gweru magistrate Primrose Nyika ordered Mazhawidza to pay $100 fine, failure of which he would spend two months in prison.
