Prison Boss loots prisoners’ food
5 May 2011
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Harare(ZimEye)Donor fed inmates of Harare Remand prison are facing another possibility of a food crisis after it has emerged that the prison’s Officer-in-Charge Chief Superintendent Billiard Chibaya is converting the donated foodstuffs to his personal use.
Officers who spoke to ZimEye revealed that Chibaya who is a war veteran is looting stocks of the Red Cross donated foodstuffs and taking them to his camp house which he in turn is transporting to Mbare musika for resale through some vendors. A daily audit conducted regularly showed gaps created by large amounts of stock which are untraceable.
“He (Chibaya) is our boss and we have nowhere to report this because if anyone does, they will be targeted (for victimization) but this has been going on since he was transferred to this station some two years ago”, said an officer who requested anonymity.
The looted foods include mealie meal and cooking oil. “…but the quantities (loot) are increasing every time. The foodstuffs include among others cooking oil, beans, sugar and mealie-meal;” he said.

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A starving prisoner attempts to consume the best he can of the food in front of him

The officers who at the time of writing could not prove the existence of the Mbare stall-market confessed:
“we hear he is operating a market-stall in Mbare which sells the commodities,” said one of the officers.
Hundreds of prison-inmates died during the 2008-2009 period as a result of a combination of starvation and a cholera outbreak with the then Zanu (PF) government blocking some donor agencies from addressing the situation. The problem later then changed for the better with the intervention of UNICEF in combating Cholera and Red Cross assisting with food.
Meanwhile Supt Chibaya reportedly launched a crackdown on officers suspected of leaking the information to the media with two officers with journalism backgrounds having been so far victimized by the ageing Officer-in-Charge. His crackdown team includes one self styled war veteran Chief Prison Officer (CPO) Mark Katsatse, the man who removed drip from the unconscious Glenview MP Paul Madzore when he was admitted at the avenues clinic in 2007 and also told Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai t0hat he would never rule Zimbabwe on his visit to prison to see the then incarcerated Morgan Komichi, Intelligence officer CPO Walter Mbanje, one Senior Prison Officer Muringani and Robert Chukucha a junior officer who was part of the 2008 terror squad in Bindura and Shamva who openly boasts of having shot and killed a woman in cold blood.
“Chibaya suspects that some two junior officers are the ones who are writing articles or simply leaking the information to the media about him and his abuse of office because the two did journalism. They have however been transferred to Chinhoyi and Karoi prisons respectively as part of his strategy to get rid of them,” the office added.
According to the source Chibaya believes that one of the two authored a story which alleged that he had displaced some juvenile inmates from their cells to pave way for his chicken rearing project thereby exposing them to hard core criminals and their abuses such as sodomy, a project he stopped soon after reading the story on the ZimEye website. It has also been reported that Chibaya who has been giving orders to the organisation’s regional offices through the phone to transfer the two has never made some formal investigations into the matter, referring to rely on speculation.
Since then, the suspected officers have been victimized in different ways with the crackdown team set up by Chibaya playing a central role. Some officers who have previously been victimized by Chibaya include Tinashe Maradzika and Although Damu who were also transferred to Chinhoyi and Karoi Prisons respectively. Efforts to get a comment from the two officers at the time of publishing were fruitless as both their phones were not reachable. (ZimEye, Zimbabwe) PIC: An entrance to the Harare Remand Prison.

11 Replies to “Prison Boss loots prisoners’ food”

  1. Thabani I think you have brought a whole new dimension to this which may be true!

  2. Much as l dont refuse that it is true that prison bosses convert inmates food for themselves which is bad and unacceptable. Why do l have a feeling that this story is much about prison officers who are being tormented than the food story…..? Were the very transfered junior prison officers not part of the deal up until they were left out and then decided to leak the story? Panenyaya

  3. Izvozvi kutaura kwatirikuita arikuto rana kashop kekutengesa chikafu chevasungwa. Zimbavha remunhu. So?

  4. lies, how can the boss steal prisoners food.nxaaaa. mdc-t [pro[paganda

  5. Chegotsi huri bhenzi iwewe? How can u wish rape and murder on other human beings? You speak for the mindset of ZATO PF in general.

  6. What about the hundreds, if not thousands of opposition supporters who are in there on spurious stupid charges hey? This prisoner coulsd easily be Cde Biti, or Tsvangirai in there. Nxa!

  7. Almost all if not all prisoners are in by virtue of being criminals. They are rapists ,robbers, killers ,thieves muggers etc. Iam just reading a story were a 65 yr old rogue rapped a 7yr old girl whilst a 3 yr old brother watched. So I would have wanted such to be sentenced to death. Denying them a five course meal from foreign donors, who have no idea on how much misery and trauma these criminals bring on us , should not be an issue of concern to anyone who has been visited by these malcontents. Why not channel the food to deserving and unfotunate law abiding citizens like those in hospital and aids opharns organisations and let the criminals work for their own food and subsistence. They used to do this at prisons like at Hwahwa in Gweru. So Cde Zimondi and co. , more fire till the prisons are no go areas to criminals. For all those that will insult me, I wish your daughters get raped today on their way from school and your wives are done as well tonight by armed rogues, as you watch helplessly. More fire and less symphathy.

  8. Chibaya bastard nxaaaa !!! ndizvozvatakaendera kuhondo here? ucha-ma-ma, inguva chete

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