By Staff Reporter
GLEN-VIEW North Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) legislator, Happymore Chidziva popularly known as ‘Bvondo’ has been arrested and charged with rape.
The MP is accused of raping a 16-year-old girl.
Last week, Chidziva was taken to Budiriro Police Station after the minor was reported missing.
The new charge of rape, registered at Harare Central Police Station, details the events leading to Chidziva’s alleged criminality according to court papers.
According to reports, tests conducted at the adult rape clinic at Parirenyatwa Group of Hospitals in Harare on the alleged victim were said to be “scary.”
One of Harare’s popular hotels, Jameson Hotel along Samora Machel Avenue is among the sites where the rape allegedly took place, according to court papers.
The minor was reported missing by her family after she was last seen in the company of a Member of Parliament (MP).
The family filed a missing person’s report accusing a Citizens Coalition for Change MP of “hiding” a 16-year-old girl.
Chidziva had allegedly promised to find her a job.
“She has been gone almost two weeks. We suspect he is hiding her somewhere,” the alleged victim’s aunt told a local online media publication recently.
The girl’s family suspected the MP was having an affair with the teen which is against Zimbabwean law which sets the age of consent for sexual relations at 18 years.
Webster Jiti of Jiti Chambers is representing the family.
