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Original Post Date: 2010-04-12 Time: 05:00:01 Posted By: News Poster
By Freeman Razemba
Harare – IT is often said every family has its black sheep.
However, it appears some families have entire flocks.
This past week, police detectives have been involved in two shootouts with a six-member gang from the Mbaura and Kasinga families, who are related and are believed to be armed robbers.
The gang is understood to have started its reign of terror in 2007, targeting people in and around Chegutu.
The Mbaura component of the gang includes the now deceased Itai (32) — who died in a shoot-out on Saturday — his brother Brighton and his son Sam.
The Kasinga brothers — Kelvin (26), Peter (41) and Friday (age not given) — are uncles to the Mbauras.
All of them are originally from Malawi and grew up at Blue Rock Mine in Chegutu where some of them did their primary education, but did not make it to secondary school.
The first to be implicated in criminal activities was Sam, who was into cattle rustling with a colleague named Adam Alfred.
A police source yesterday said: “Our investigations show things did not go very well between them and they had a bitter argument over the sharing of loot.
“Alfred decided to recruit Itai Mbaura. The two broke into several houses and robbed people at gunpoint as part of their day-to-day living.
“Afterwards, they started working as a syndicate with their other relatives.”
It is alleged they even set up a safe house in Kadoma to which they would flee whenever police were hot on their trail.
When police closed in on them, they have never hesitated to trade bullets with law enforcement agents.
In 2007, the gang allegedly shot and injured Police Assistant Inspector Never Bepura.
Asst Insp Bepura and other officers had attempted to arrest the suspected robbers at a Chegutu restaurant.
“They are very violent and we are not sure yet where they obtain some of the guns they use but we believe they are stolen,” a senior police source said.
Some of the property they robbed was kept at their houses in Chegutu or at their Kadoma safe house before being disposed of.
Other items were hidden in mountains.
However, this week their luck ran thin.
Last Saturday at around 3pm, police received information that the four were driving a Mazda B1600 pick-up truck and were at Blue Rock Farm.
Heavily armed detectives surprised the suspects and ordered them to surrender, firing warning shots.
Itai fled while shooting back at the detectives but he was shot on the thigh and arrested.
He died after being admitted at Parirenyatwa Hospital.
Brothers Cephas (39) and Peter Kasinga (41) were arrested.
The remaining gang members — probably in a display that blood is thicker than water — attended Itai’s burial in Kadoma on Wednesday and ran into police who were lying in wait for them there.
The suspected criminals got suspicious and decided to leave the funeral.
Police fired warning shots but they did not take heed.
A detective subsequently hit Kelvin Kasinga with a justice shot in the right shoulder and arrested him.
The others again managed to escape.
Kelvin was taken to Kadoma Hospital before being transferred to Parirenyatwa Hospital in Harare for treatment under police guard.
The recent shootings appear not to have instilled any fear in the gang.
It has emerged that the fugitives are now making threatening phone calls to detectives investigating the case, promising to wipe them out.
Police sources said a few hours after the shoot-out at the Kadoma funeral, suspected gang members phoned detectives on their mobile phones and threatened to “deal” with them.
They hid the identity of their mobile phone numbers when they called.
“They were saying they want to kill at least five detectives for shooting Itai Mbaura and injuring Kelvin,” said another senior police officer.
CID spokesperson Detective Inspector Augustine Zimbili yesterday vowed: “We will not handle armed robbers with kid gloves and we will continue to use adequate force to secure arrest.
“The force that we always apply depends on the resistance we get from the criminals.”
Investigations indicate that last Friday, the gang broke into a house in Chegutu and got away with property worth US$7 000.
Some of the property was recovered after it was sold to various people in and around the town.
Friday Kasinga was also wanted in connection with a 2007 armed robbery committed in Norton.
Sam Mbaura had pending cases in Mamina, Mhondoro.
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Published by the government of Zimbabwe
Original date published: 10 April 2010
Source: http://allafrica.com/stories/201004120045.html?viewall=1