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Mnangagwa's lawyer speaks
14 Aug 2018 at 15:33hrs | Views
The Zanu-PF party's secretary for legal affairs, Paul Mangwana, has said they want the Con-Court to dismiss Chamisa's petition on technical grounds, including on the basis that the MDC Alliance did not allegedly serve the papers at the president's address properly.
"The purported service is irregular for a number of reasons, including that, it is hopelessly out of time, the pronouncement having been made on or before the 3rd of August, 2018. Service should have been done by Friday, the 10th of August, 2018.
"In any event, service should have been effected at Comrade ED Mnangagwa's address, as given in his nomination papers, being Pricable Farm, Sherwood Block, Kwekwe, and further that, from the papers delivered, there is not attached some documents referred to in the application.
"To our knowledge, because of the attempt to catch respondents by surprise, the applicant has failed to effect service on time, and in accordance with the law," Mangwana has said.
"The purported service is irregular for a number of reasons, including that, it is hopelessly out of time, the pronouncement having been made on or before the 3rd of August, 2018. Service should have been done by Friday, the 10th of August, 2018.
"To our knowledge, because of the attempt to catch respondents by surprise, the applicant has failed to effect service on time, and in accordance with the law," Mangwana has said.
Source - dailynews
