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THE post-mortem of businessman, Amos Kagona, which is expected to help police investigations to establish the real cause of his death in Harare last week, was not done as scheduled yesterday.
Kagona, widely known as Chidhedhedhe, was reported to have shot himself dead at the house of fellow businessman, Felix Munyaradzi, last Tuesday, just hours before he was set to appear in court on US$3 million fraud charges.
Munyaradzi is the complainant in the case.
Kagona was set to be buried today in Bindura but the delays in the post mortem mean that his grieving family will have to wait longer before they lay him to rest.
“The post mortem was not done as scheduled today (yesterday) because of some complications and we have been told that the post mortem will be done on Wednesday,” said one of his colleagues.
“Yes, we had been told that the funeral is there tomorrow (today) in Bindura but that is no longer the case.”
H-Metro has also been told that there is concern within some of Kagona’s colleagues that their friend might not have pulled the trigger which killed him.
“The good thing is that the police have already come out and said that they will pursue their investigations basing on what will come from the post mortem.
“We have our concerns as friends because there is a photograph that was taken just after he died and it appears that his gun was in his pocket at the time.
“This is what is concerning us but we are not making any judgments until we get the official report from the police because they are the experts in this.”
Last week, national police spokesperson, Commissioner Paul Nyathi, said investigations were still in progress and confirmed that they were waiting for the results from both the post mortem and ballistics.
“We are still conducting investigations on the case and we will release more details in due course,” he said.
Kagona walked from his house in Ashdown Park to Borrowdale West on the day of the tragedy.
A few hours later, his accomplices, Jacob Muyambo and Mutakura, were convicted of the fraud charges by magistrate Stanford Mambanje and are expected back in court today for sentencing.
Munyaradzi is expected to testify in the victim based assessment.
It is the State’s case that from August 2015 to March 2018 Muyambo, Kagona and Mutakura teamed up and defrauded Delatfin Civil Engineering.
The State alleges that Kagona and Mutakura posed as car suppliers to Munyaradzi, the Delatfin chief executive.
It is alleged that they started selling commonage stands allocated to the Ministry of Local Government, Public Works and National Housing by Delatfin.
After the sale of the stands, Kudakwashe Wasara would allegedly prepare fake agreements of sale purporting that the stands in question would have been sold with Muyambo, in his capacity as the finance manager, approving the sale and indicating that Kagona and Mutakura had paid.
It is alleged that they would then share the proceeds, while they were fully aware that these stands were to be disposed of at a later stage and that their employer would not notice at the time that the stands were being disposed of.
The land stolen is said to be valued at US$3 350 865.
District Public prosecutor Tafara Chirambira appeared for the State.
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