Zimbabwe Top officials Prisons and Correctional Services have shockingly revealed that convicted rapist Munyaradzi Kereke is receiving preferential treatment at the Chikurubi Maximum Security Prison.
The officials allege that Kereke is allowed to have home visits so that he can have sex with his wife, something other inmates are not allowed. He is also alleged to be exempt from manual labour.
Kereke is currently serving a 10-year prison sentence after he was finally convicted of raping his 10-year-old niece at gunpoint in 2016. This followed a protracted 6-year struggle to have him answer for his crimes. Then Prosecutor-General Johannes Tomana protected him and refused to prosecute him, claiming that there was no evidence of the crime.
The shocking allegations against Tomana were made by three senior prison officers who are facing charges of receiving over $10 500 from a chicken project without informing their superior. The chicken project was partially set up by Kereke.
The three officials are former Chikurubi Maximum Security Prison officer-in-charge Nobert Chomurenga and his then lieutenants, Cephas Chiparausha and Tonderai Mutiwaringa.
Information Garthered indicate that, the three are alleged to have set up the chicken project with Kereke’s Humanity Earth Trust providing, 3 000 birds, feed, medicines and other sanitary requirements. The trio on their side provided space and labour from the prisoners. However, the project was a personal one only meant to benefit the three officer and not the ZPCS.
In their defence, the three officers claimed that Commissioner-General Paradzayi Zimondi was fully aware of the project and approved of it. They also alleged that the charges only came about after they fell out with Kereke.
The trial is still ongoing.
Ironically, in 2018, Norton legislator firebrand:
Temba Mliswa claimed that kereke had managed to impregnate his young wife dsoite the fact that he was serving 10 years in prison for raping a minor
