Just when we thought we’d heard it all, someone’s grandmother conned their church member and has appeared before Harare’s magistrate. Her case has been remanded to June 17 2021.
Anne Matseketu, the 62 year old grandmother in question, is being charged for selling stands on a dumpsite area. The victim, Brand Chaipa, was looking to buy the $20 000 stand Matseketu had claimed she had.
The fraudulent activity has been brewing since 2015 when gogo Matseketu is said to have mislead her church member Chaipa to believe that she owned stand number 7023 in Westlea, behind the National Sports Stadium. Upon being shown the maps of the area Chaipa paid US$1020 to gogo Matseketu. Thereafter Matseketu handed him a receipt under the name Amazing Housing Cooperative.
The next payment was made a couple of months later in 2015. Chaipa handed gogo Matseketu US$1000.This time, no receipt was issued. He was given the go ahead to start building on the area. A year later when he was about to begin his development of the stand, he was approached by the council and informed that that was not a residential area.
It came to the victim’s attention that Gogo Matseketu was being sought after by EMA as she had been in the business of selling the dumpsite area stands under the pretext that she owned the land.
Gogo Matseketu’s will appear in court on June 17 2021.
Cases of such crimes have been on the rise following the hike of economic challenges. One such crime that we shared involved Grace Mugabe’s son. You can read about that here.
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