Zanu-PF's Wadyajena sue Dailynews for $250k

Chairperson of the Parliamentary Portfolio Committee on Youth, Indigenisation and Economic Empowerment Justice Mayor Wadyajena has slapped The Daily News with a $250 000 lawsuit over a defamatory article it published on April 30, 2015.

Through his lawyers, Machingura Legal Practitioners, Wadyajena said the article titled "MP 'targets' ex-partner in Parly summons" were defamatory by implying that he abused his parliamentary position to settle personal scores with Sakunda owner Kuda Tagwirei.

The Gokwe-Nembudziya MP added that the article implied that he abused his position as chairperson of the parliamentary committee to victimise those perceived to be against his personal business interests and that he was vindictive and unethical.

Failure by the paper to respond within seven days from May 5, 2015, would see the MP's legal representatives instituting legal proceedings against it.

The paper alleged that Wadyajena targeted Sakunda only and did not invite Zuva Petroleum "whose purchase of assets by a company owned by banker John Mushayavanhu was the subject of intense bickering, has not been invited to appear before the same committee".