By A Correspondent | Harare Mayor Jacob Mafume has been convicted for lying under oath during the Commission of Inquiry currently underway in Harare.

The Commision of Inquiry is being chaired by retired judge Justice Maphios Cheda.

Cheda however spared Mafume a custodial sentence after he was ordered to pay US$300 fine.

He was also given a threw months wholly suspended jail term with conditions that he does not commit a similar offence in five years.

He was found guilty of contravening Section. 23 of the Commission of Inquiry Act.

In sentencing him Cheda said, “You gave evidence which you knew was false.

“In assessing a suitable sentence I took into account what you have submitted in mitigation.

“Jacob Mafume, you are sentenced to pay a fine of US$300 or three months in prison which is wholly suspended for five years on condition that during that period you are not convicted of contravening section 13 or 14 of the Act,” said Cheda.

Mafume lied that he stays at Number 110 Coronation Road, Greendale, a property which belongs to one Peter Pfukwa.

Pfukwa runs an auction at the adress.

After he was exposed he told the comission that he had mixed up numbers as he had just moved in.