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Africa-Press – Zimbabwe. <\/strong><\/span>Former Public Service, Labour and Social Welfare Minister Petronella Kagonye were on Thursday, 9 June, sentenced to 16 months imprisonment by Harare magistrate Vongai Muchuchuti-Guwuriro.<\/p>\n

The magistrate had convicted Kagonye the previous day for diverting into her own use, some 20 computers which were donated through her by the Postal and Telecommunication Regulatory Authority (POTRAZ).<\/p>\n

The laptops were meant for schools in the ZANU PF politician\u2019s Goromonzi South constituency in 2018.<\/p>\n

Muchuchuti sentenced Kagonye to 36 months in jail. The magistrate, however, set aside 12 months for five years on condition of good behaviour.<\/p>\n

A further eight months were set aside on condition she restitutes US$10 000 equivalent to the laptops she stole.<\/p>\n

Allegations were that in June 2018, Kagonye wrote to then ICT Minister Supa Mandiwanzira requesting computers to donate to schools in her constituency.<\/p>\n

On 20 June 2018, Mandiwanzira then wrote to POTRAZ requesting facilitation of the donations through its e-learning project to Goromonzi South schools.<\/p>\n

POTRAZ donated the computers to Kagonye who sent her brother Evans Kagonye to collect them on her behalf.<\/p>\n

However, when POTRAZ later made a follow up on the donation, Kagonye could not account for the gadgets.<\/p>\n

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