Zanu-PF MP wriggles off $1,500 maintenance hook

Gokwe-Nembudziya MP Justice Mayor Wadyajena (Zanu-PF) has wriggled off the $1 500 child maintenance hook imposed on him a year ago after the High Court yesterday quashed the order and referred the matter back to the magistrate for a fresh assessment.

In upholding Wadyajena's appeal against the order, High Court judges of appeal Justices Amie Tsanga and Alphias Chitakunye said the magistrate who granted the order misdirected himself after failing to apply his mind to the relevant issues before making the order.

The judges further said a perusal of the court record showed that both parties, Wadyajena and his former lover Wadzanai Mudare, made their expenses claims on their 10-year old daughter by simply basing them on speculations.