A CAMEROONIAN national operating a business in Zimbabwe has been arrested for kidnapping a driver from a local company before handing him over to Zambia police at the Chirundu Border Post.The driver was accused of stealing 600 bags of fertiliser he was expected to deliver in Zambia.
The victim is being detained at Mosque Police Post in Makei, Lusaka.
Fifty-year-old Moussa Mounchikpou and his alleged Zimbabwean accomplice Brian Chande (50) were arraigned before Harare regional magistrate Stanford Mambanje facing a kidnap charge.
The duo was remanded to March 24 on US$200 bail each.
Allegations are that on October 28 last year, Mounchikpou and Chande, who were in the company of three other accomplices who are still at large, summoned the driver to their offices in Workington industrial area in Harare.
It is alleged that Chande introduced the driver to the Cameroonian and the other men who claimed to be police officers.
Chande allegedly left the driver with the men who claimed to be from the police advising him that he was under arrest for failing to deliver 600 bags of fertiliser in Lusaka, Zambia.
It is further alleged that the men handcuffed and assaulted the driver using a baton demanding to know where he had offloaded the fertiliser.
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The men later bundled the driver into their motor vehicle before driving to the Chirundu Border Post where they handed him over to Lloyd Chisumba a Zambian national who was in the company of that country’s police.
Chisumba, who was driving an Isuzu twin cab, took the driver to Mosque Police Post where he was detained.
The driver reported the matter to Interpol on December 18 last year leading to Mounchikpou and Chande’s arrest.
