{"id":762,"date":"2022-06-17T13:42:17","date_gmt":"2022-06-17T13:42:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zimgbcnews.co.zw\/?p=762"},"modified":"2022-06-17T13:42:19","modified_gmt":"2022-06-17T13:42:19","slug":"transformer-thieves-nabbed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/zimgbcnews.co.zw\/?p=762","title":{"rendered":"Transformer Thieves Nabbed"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>05 February 2022<br>Vimbayi Mahachi<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP) in Sadza have arrested two men who were illegally in position of Zimbabwe Electricity Supply Authority (ZESA) transformers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The report was confirmed by the Police in a statement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The report states that on the second of this month the received a tip off concerning theft of ZESA electrical materials which they reacted to swiftly.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The police mounted a roadblock at Sadza Growth Point around 2am which paid off as they managed to arrest the duo who were using a Nissan NP300 hard body single cab vehicle to ferry their loot.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ignitions Kudakwashe Nyabonda (28) and Trymore Mhondiwa (25) who were arrested for theft of ZESA transformers at Chimowa Primary and Secondary Schools.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The police said that one of the suspects only identified as Tendai Chida fled from the scene.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Police were able to recover a transformer copper coils, two catapults, one black electric shocker torch, a black scale, one brown okapi knife and vehicle registration number plates ABW5154.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In an almost similar case on Thursday Police in Bulawayo arrested a security guard, Micah Mbeu (47) for theft of 8kgs copper windings at ZESA Steeldale Substation along Khami Road where he was manning the premises.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\nhttps:\/\/chat.whatsapp.com\/HLTr91OAOOZ3jHdEI7418Z\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Copper and transformer theft is rife in Zimbabwe as these have a ready black market. Some suburbs like Northvale and Kingsdale Suburbs in Bulawayo are always plunged in darkness because of electrical cable theft.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Zim GBC News<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Classified Ads<br>For:<br>Bookeping services, Accounting services<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>ZIMRA TAX clearance<br>-ZIMRA Audits<br>Payroll services,<br>Human resources,<br>Labour issues<br>Contact GBC Accounting on +263 718 879 398_<\/li><\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>05 February 2022Vimbayi Mahachi Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP) in Sadza have arrested two men who were illegally in position of Zimbabwe Electricity Supply Authority (ZESA) transformers. The report was confirmed&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":435,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-762","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-main-stories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/zimgbcnews.co.zw\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/762","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/zimgbcnews.co.zw\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/zimgbcnews.co.zw\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/zimgbcnews.co.zw\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/zimgbcnews.co.zw\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=762"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/zimgbcnews.co.zw\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/762\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":763,"href":"http:\/\/zimgbcnews.co.zw\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/762\/revisions\/763"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/zimgbcnews.co.zw\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/435"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/zimgbcnews.co.zw\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=762"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/zimgbcnews.co.zw\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=762"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/zimgbcnews.co.zw\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=762"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}