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CIO boss faces arrest and imprisonment
14 Apr 2015 at 09:01hrs | Views
CIO Boss Happyton Bonyongwe is facing arrest and imprisonment for 90 days over his failure to search for abduted activist Itai Dzamara.
A court move has been launched naming Bonyongwe Police Commissioner General Augustine Chihuri, and Home Affairs Minister Kembo Mohadi should be imprisoned for 90 days for disobeying a lawful court order issued on Friday 13 March 2015 by High Court Judge Justice David Mangota directing them to brief lawyers on progress and cooperate with them in their efforts to conduct the investigations as a team.
Mohadi, Chihuri and Bonyongwe are guilty of contempt of court after they intentionally disobeying a court order by not reporting any progress of the search for Dzamara as required of them by Justice Mangota, the full application by Dzamara's wife, Sheffra, charges.
On Friday 13 March 2015, Justice David Mangota ordered Mohadi, Chihuri, Bonyongwe and the State Security Minister to dispatch a team of police detectives to work closely and in conjunction with lawyers appointed by Zimbabwe Lawyers for Human Rights to search for the freelance journalist at all such places as may be within their jurisdiction in terms of the law and report progress of such search to the Registrar of the High Court by 1600 hours every Friday fortnightly until his whereabouts have been determined.
Fearing contempt of court proceedings initiated by human rights lawyers on Thursday 02 April, 2015 for failing to comply with a High Court order obliging them to report on progress they have made in searching for the missing human rights defender, police are now claiming that they are doing all they can to locate Dzamara, who was abducted in early March.
The 35 year-old Dzamara is alleged to have been abducted on Monday 09 March 2015 by some unidentified men who were travelling in a white twin cab vehicle with a blurred registration number plate from a barber shop, where he was having a haircut in Harare's high density suburb of Glenview. He has remained missing since then.
A court move has been launched naming Bonyongwe Police Commissioner General Augustine Chihuri, and Home Affairs Minister Kembo Mohadi should be imprisoned for 90 days for disobeying a lawful court order issued on Friday 13 March 2015 by High Court Judge Justice David Mangota directing them to brief lawyers on progress and cooperate with them in their efforts to conduct the investigations as a team.
Mohadi, Chihuri and Bonyongwe are guilty of contempt of court after they intentionally disobeying a court order by not reporting any progress of the search for Dzamara as required of them by Justice Mangota, the full application by Dzamara's wife, Sheffra, charges.
Fearing contempt of court proceedings initiated by human rights lawyers on Thursday 02 April, 2015 for failing to comply with a High Court order obliging them to report on progress they have made in searching for the missing human rights defender, police are now claiming that they are doing all they can to locate Dzamara, who was abducted in early March.
The 35 year-old Dzamara is alleged to have been abducted on Monday 09 March 2015 by some unidentified men who were travelling in a white twin cab vehicle with a blurred registration number plate from a barber shop, where he was having a haircut in Harare's high density suburb of Glenview. He has remained missing since then.
Source - zimeye
