Another blow for Mohadi

A Gwanda magistrate yesterday dropped charges of malicious damage to property against six villagers involved in a legal wrangle over a piece of land with Home Affairs co-minister Kembo Mohadi’s family in Beitbridge.

The ruling was delivered two weeks after Beitbridge magistrate Gloria Takundwa acquitted three villagers the Mohadis accused of cutting a fence at the disputed farm.

The six, Given Mbedzi, Soforia Ndou, Knowledge Muleya, Alisa Mbedzi, Jameson Mbedzi and Given’s mother Philani Ndou, were facing charges of damaging locks and cutting a fence erected by the minister’s 22-year-old son Campbell Junior at a disputed farm at Jompembe Block.

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