Eager to prove that the existence of so called cash barons Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe governor Gideon Gono masterminded the arrest of well known dealer Dorothy Mutekede over the weekend, The Zimbabwe Gazette has established.

Several foreign currency dealers interviewed confirmed to seeing Mutekede, who is popularly known as Chihera in the streets of Harare, on Sunday morning with most of them claiming that she called them informing in the wee hours on Sunday morning telling them that she will be appearing on the front page of one of Zimbabwe’s leading weeklies.

“She was never locked up and although the police on Monday claimed that she was still in police custody the truth is that Chihera was and is still going about her business of buying and selling foreign currency. There is now way she could have been arrested because that woman is well connected,” claimed a dealer who requested anonymity.

Intrestingly police have been flip flopping on the issue as they claimed on Monday that Mutekede was still in police custody before refusing to confirm or deny rumours that the well known dealer was released and is freely roaming the streets of Harare.

Meanwhile, speculation is rife that the arrest of Mutekede is part of a war between Gono and the chairman of the parliamentary portfolio committee on budget and finance David Butau, who is now on the police wanted list in connection with exchange control violations.

The committee is going to look at (Gono’s) statement clause by clause. Once we come up with a list of queries, we will then decide whether to invite the governor. We will also follow the Parliamentary Standing Orders and Guidelines to decide whether it warrants invitation,” said the lawmaker soon after Gono’s publicity stunt.

And it is this statement that did not go down well with the RBZ chief.

“Butau and Gono are fighting their own wars which have sucked in Mutekede who is believed to be Butau’s girlfriend,” said a highly placed source.

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