Modenga Implicated In FCC Illegal Land Sale Scandal

Lechedzani Modenga
Lechedzani Modenga

FRANCISTOWN: The deputy mayor of Francistown, Lechedzani Modenga, is mired in the illegal sale of public land owned by the Francistown City Council (FCC).

Before the dust has hardly settled down in Modenga’s brushes with the law, he was dragged before the Chief Magistrate Gaedupe Makgatho on Friday albeit in absentia to face a count of using his position to swindle a person out of her money under the pretext that he would facilitate that she be allocated residential plots.

The state alleges that on different dates in April, 2015, in Francistown, Modenga unlawfully and intentionally obtained P45,000 from Karabo Nkwai by falsely representing to her that as FCC’s deputy mayor, he will use his position to facilitate that Nkwai be allocated two plots owned by the FCC.

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