Gun-totting RBZ official in court

to shoot her following an altercation over an IPAD he had given her.
The Hollywood movie style chase is alleged to have started in the Borrowdale area and ended in the city centre.
John Mafararikwa who is senior executive (international relations) at the central bank yesterday appeared before Harare magistrate Mr Elijah Makomo who remanded him out of custody to today for trial on his own cognisance.
Mafararikwa – a former advisor to executive director of the International Monetary Fund – was not formally charged with contravening section 27(b) of the Firearms Act, which criminalises pointing a gun at any person.
Prosecutor Mr Nyikadzino Machingura alleges that on November 13 this year at around 1200hrs Mafararikwa’s wife was driving along South Way from her house where she had gone to collect her clothes.
She is alleged to have had an altercation with Mafararikwa.
It is alleged that when she was driving towards Harare Drive she met her husband who blocked her way with his vehicle and asked for his IPAD.
The State says she told him that she will bring it the following day but Mafararikwa did not respond.
He is alleged to have walked to his car, which was blocking his wife’s and pulled out a pistol from the dash board before returning to the complainant’s vehicle.
The complainant who was in her vehicle drove off at high speed towards Harare Drive with Mafararikwa in hot pursuit.
Mafararikwa, it is alleged, followed her to the city centre before losing track.
She made a police report leading to her husband’s court appearance.