Clever Chada, 42, appeared before magistrate Ruth Moyo at the Harare Magistrates’ Courts facing fresh charges of unlawful possession of firearms and ammunition, despite already serving a sentence for armed robbery.
Prosecutor Takudzwa Jambawu told the court that on November 21, 2025, detectives from CID Homicide Harare received a tip-off linking Chada to a stash of firearms believed to have been used in a series of armed robberies targeting Mukuru Money Transfer outlets earlier this year.
Chada, who was arrested in January 2025 in connection with those robberies, allegedly instructed his wife, Erinita Chingosho — who is currently on the run — to hide the weapons. She is said to have taken the firearms to the home of Tamari Tikiza for safekeeping.
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On November 22, detectives visited Tikiza’s residence, where she reportedly admitted receiving the weapons from Chingosho on Chada’s instructions. She then led the police to her nephew, Shepard Maisiri, who had hidden the firearms.
Tikiza and Maisiri were arrested, and police recovered a black plastic bag containing three firearms — an AUT 6.5mm pistol (serial number B309360), a Browning Spatene Depose pistol (serial number 249567), and a Patented Colt pistol (serial number 06309) — from Maisiri’s garden.
Both Tikiza and Maisiri implicated Chada as the owner of the guns and the mastermind behind their concealment.
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