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Mashudu Mambo
A MOTHER-daughter duo from Njube suburb in Bulawayo has been nabbed after they were allegedly found in possession of dagga and illegal cough syrup worth about US$13 500.
Priscilla Muunganirwa and Takudzwa Masapa appeared before Bulawayo regional magistrate Joseph Mabeza facing two charges of possession of dagga and contravening the medicines and allied substances act.
The duo was not asked to plead and remanded in custody to 3 February for bail consideration.
State allegations against the duo are that on 26 December 2024, the two had some knowledge about contraband containing drugs which was in transit from South Africa.
The bus was set to offload the contraband along George Silundika Street between 4th and 5th Avenue in Bulawayo.
The two hired a white Pro Box car which was driven by Prosper Chacha and it was parked outside the garage.
At around 5pm, the bus arrived in Bulawayo and the two suspects entered the garage and collected one white coloured bucket, a blue-greenish coloured bucket, one wrapped cardboard box and walked outside towards the hired car.
The police detectives from CID drugs and Narcotics who had received a tip off that the two were in possession of dagga and illegal cough syrup intercepted the duo before they loaded the contraband in the hired vehicle.
The detectives instructed the duo to open the two buckets and the cardboard box, they complied. The two buckets contained 223 by 100mls bottles of cough syrup and a cardboard box contained 25 sealed packets of dagga.
The two were apprehended and the recovered dagga was taken to Bulawayo Zimbabwe Post Office for weighing in the presence of the two suspects and it weighed 12,250 kilograms.
This led to the arrest of the suspects.
Bongani Ndlovu
Online Reporter