Acting mayor back in court

bond apiece.
Magistrate Mr Fani Nyakudya remanded them to November 30 for trial.
It is alleged that some time in August this year, Dube-Marumahoko and Marufu, a housing clerk in the Ministry of National Housing and Social Amenities, connived to swindle Mr Herbert Mutombwa by selling him a non-existent stand.
Mr Mutombwa approached Dube-Marumahoko some time in August looking for a stand to buy.
Dube-Marumahoko indicated that he had a stand that he was willing to sell for US$2 500 and they agreed terms. The acting mayor then went to Marufu and they fraudulently processed the papers for the stand in Rujeko suburb.
The man paid US$2 000 for the stand promising to pay the balance later. They showed him the stand and he went to check with council the status of the stand.
He was told that it was not for sale  but instead had been reserved for the less privileged. Mr Mutombwa also discovered that the stand shown to him bore a different number from the one on the housing forms.
He was advised by another councillor that the housing forms he was given were fake.
Mr Mutombwa confronted Dube-Marumahoko who allegedly confessed and offered to repay the money.
They went to a lawyer where he made an undertaking to repay the money by October 5.
The man realised that he had been duped and made a report to the police leading to the arrest of the two.