Online Reporter
Zvikomborero Parafini
CONTROVERSIAL private investigator Tafadzwa ‘Detective Kedha’ Chidawa was last week convicted of kidnapping a Harare woman whom he had been hired to investigate.
Chidawa was convicted after a full trial by Harare magistrate Tapiwa Banda.
He was acquitted of impersonation, assault and cyber bullying.
On the kidnapping charge, he was ordered to pay a fine of US$200 by July 14 or risk imprisonment.
The complainant was Shallom Gandiya, who is employed by Jaimy Technologies, as a director.
The State, represented by Dzidzai Josiah, proved that on March 5 last year, Chidawa and his accomplices, including Lazarus James, kidnapped Gandiya.
James was Gandiya’s boyfriend.
They bundled her into their car and moved her from one place to another for five hours before dumping her at Harare Central Police Station where they produced a fake ZRP Gweru Crime reference number.
The crime reference number was later verified by the police at Harare Central and it was proven to be fake.
Gandiya was deprived of her liberty for five hours, without a reasonable cause, which then prompted her to make a police report.
