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Magistrate thwarts Chief Negomo's attempts to attach Tsvangirai's property
19 Mar 2012 at 12:27hrs | Views
A Bindura magistrate has set aside the ruling by Chief Luscious Chitsinde Negomo which found Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai guilty of flouting marriage laws.
Mashonaland Central Provincial magistrate, Mawadze ruled that a correct plaintiff needed to sue in a competent jurisdiction.
The chief accuses Tsvangirai of violating traditional marriage norms which prohibit the undertaking of marriage formalities in the month of November.
Negomo charged Tsvangirai two goats, two beasts and two sheep at his traditional court held at Gweshe Business Centre in Chiweshe on December 10 last year for "breaking the traditional norms that bar people from marrying in the month."
Negomo has been threatening to attach Tsvangirai's household property this week if he does not pay his fine but the judgment by the Bindura provincial magistrate has put paid to his plans.
The magistrate cited a number of anomalies that were noted by Tsvangirai's lawyer Selby Hwacha in several correspondences with Negomo as a basis for his ruling.
In his ruling, the magistrate made it explicitly clear "that judgement in the community court be and is hereby set aside" and that "the correct plaintiff to sue in a court of competent jurisdiction and that the matter be heard denovo in that court."
On February 22, Hwacha wrote to the Bindura provincial magistrate arguing why Negomo's court was irregular and incompetent to put the premier to trial.
Hwacha said Negomo, despite being the current incumbent of the Negomo chieftainship, is widely reported to be a political activist of some political parties that the court processes under which Tsvangirai was tried were irregular as Negomo appeared as the complainant, prosecutor and judge.
MDC-T yourth have threatened to deal with Chief Negomo should he set foot at the Premier's Strathaven residency to attach his property over the Locardia Tembo marriage saga.
Mashonaland Central Provincial magistrate, Mawadze ruled that a correct plaintiff needed to sue in a competent jurisdiction.
The chief accuses Tsvangirai of violating traditional marriage norms which prohibit the undertaking of marriage formalities in the month of November.
Negomo charged Tsvangirai two goats, two beasts and two sheep at his traditional court held at Gweshe Business Centre in Chiweshe on December 10 last year for "breaking the traditional norms that bar people from marrying in the month."
Negomo has been threatening to attach Tsvangirai's household property this week if he does not pay his fine but the judgment by the Bindura provincial magistrate has put paid to his plans.
The magistrate cited a number of anomalies that were noted by Tsvangirai's lawyer Selby Hwacha in several correspondences with Negomo as a basis for his ruling.
In his ruling, the magistrate made it explicitly clear "that judgement in the community court be and is hereby set aside" and that "the correct plaintiff to sue in a court of competent jurisdiction and that the matter be heard denovo in that court."
On February 22, Hwacha wrote to the Bindura provincial magistrate arguing why Negomo's court was irregular and incompetent to put the premier to trial.
Hwacha said Negomo, despite being the current incumbent of the Negomo chieftainship, is widely reported to be a political activist of some political parties that the court processes under which Tsvangirai was tried were irregular as Negomo appeared as the complainant, prosecutor and judge.
MDC-T yourth have threatened to deal with Chief Negomo should he set foot at the Premier's Strathaven residency to attach his property over the Locardia Tembo marriage saga.
Source - Byo24News
