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Mugabe threatens judge because the end of dictatorship is now at stake!
07 Mar 2015 at 16:52hrs | Views
Mugabe, the tyrant he is, is now threatening any of the Judges who dare hear the case lodge by Mutasa and Gumbo last week to challenge the legality of last year's Zanu PF party elections. The two are saying the elections failed to follow the party's own constitution.
The Mugabe faction of the party that has seized power since the disputed elections went on to force elected provincial chairperson, for example, out of office by mob rule. There was no due process followed in their dismissal as required by the party's own constitution and the overarching Zimbabwe constitution law.
"Regai kumboita hanya neavo vanoti tinonoman'arira party…ndiani akamboti policy yeparty, yebumbiro reparty rinotibatanidza ibumbiro renyika (Ignore those who are saying they will sue the party …. who said the party constitution that binds us is the same as the country's constitution?," Mugabe asserted.
"We would want to see which magistrate would sit to hear that case. Then we will question their educational qualifications," he threatened.
Zanu PF's own constitution gives members the right to due process and the members who were forced out of their elected position with some members like Rugare Gumbo and Jabulani Sibanda fired on the spot without being told why. Not that any thinking Zimbabwean has sympathy for these individuals; they are as corrupt and tyrannical as the other Zanu PF members. Indeed that is not what is at issue here; what is at issue is that everyone has a right to due legal process regardless of whether they are worthy of such right or not.
If Mugabe is saying the Zanu PF constitution has no such provision hence his argument "who said the party constitution that binds us is the same as the country's constitution?" That is little comfort for him because the Zimbabwe constitution grants every Zimbabwean citizen the right to due legal process as a birth right. In other words anyone or any organization within the legal jurisdiction of the Republic of Zimbabwe cannot take away this basic and fundamental right.
One does not need to be a lawyer or judge to know that the Zimbabwe constitution is the supreme law of the land! What the Zimbabwe constitution has given no one has the right, power or authority to take away; that is the law.
Mugabe is the principle respondent in this case and he should submit his arguments why the Court should throw out the case without taking it any further, if he so wish. But for him to be publically threatening any judge who even dares to hear the case is an outrage. He has not only violated the supreme law of the land, the Zimbabwe constitution, but now he has placed himself above the constitution itself by granting himself powers to dictate to those appointed in accordance to the constitution to administer the law.
There is a lot more in the Mutasa and Gumbo vs Mugabe and others legal challenge of the legality of the December 2014 Zanu PF party congress; the case will settle once and once for all whether Zimbabwe is ruled by law or the whims of a dictator!
The Mugabe faction of the party that has seized power since the disputed elections went on to force elected provincial chairperson, for example, out of office by mob rule. There was no due process followed in their dismissal as required by the party's own constitution and the overarching Zimbabwe constitution law.
"Regai kumboita hanya neavo vanoti tinonoman'arira party…ndiani akamboti policy yeparty, yebumbiro reparty rinotibatanidza ibumbiro renyika (Ignore those who are saying they will sue the party …. who said the party constitution that binds us is the same as the country's constitution?," Mugabe asserted.
"We would want to see which magistrate would sit to hear that case. Then we will question their educational qualifications," he threatened.
Zanu PF's own constitution gives members the right to due process and the members who were forced out of their elected position with some members like Rugare Gumbo and Jabulani Sibanda fired on the spot without being told why. Not that any thinking Zimbabwean has sympathy for these individuals; they are as corrupt and tyrannical as the other Zanu PF members. Indeed that is not what is at issue here; what is at issue is that everyone has a right to due legal process regardless of whether they are worthy of such right or not.
If Mugabe is saying the Zanu PF constitution has no such provision hence his argument "who said the party constitution that binds us is the same as the country's constitution?" That is little comfort for him because the Zimbabwe constitution grants every Zimbabwean citizen the right to due legal process as a birth right. In other words anyone or any organization within the legal jurisdiction of the Republic of Zimbabwe cannot take away this basic and fundamental right.
One does not need to be a lawyer or judge to know that the Zimbabwe constitution is the supreme law of the land! What the Zimbabwe constitution has given no one has the right, power or authority to take away; that is the law.
Mugabe is the principle respondent in this case and he should submit his arguments why the Court should throw out the case without taking it any further, if he so wish. But for him to be publically threatening any judge who even dares to hear the case is an outrage. He has not only violated the supreme law of the land, the Zimbabwe constitution, but now he has placed himself above the constitution itself by granting himself powers to dictate to those appointed in accordance to the constitution to administer the law.
There is a lot more in the Mutasa and Gumbo vs Mugabe and others legal challenge of the legality of the December 2014 Zanu PF party congress; the case will settle once and once for all whether Zimbabwe is ruled by law or the whims of a dictator!
Source - Wilbert Mukori
