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Registrar General - Mudede - in trouble
26 Oct 2011 at 06:08hrs | Views
A Canada-based Zimbabwean is seeking the civil imprisonment of Registrar-General Tobaiwa Mudede for defying a High Court order compelling him to issue him with a passport.
The RG's Office refused to renew Sebastian Piroro's Zimbabwean passport after the office discovered that his late father was born in Mozambique. Piroro is a special accountant and strategist with a Canadian bank.
He has been confined to Canada since the expiry of his passport last year.
Piroro claims that his job requires a lot of traveling in North America and he needs to attend international workshops and seminars to improve his skills and to plan for his bank.
He says his bid to apply for a passport 2 years before the expiry of the travelling document failed after the RG's Office opposed it arguing that he was not Zimbabwean.
According to the RG's Office, although Piroro was born in Zimbabwe some 44 years back, the fact that his father was born in Mozambique meant he now had dual citizenship.
The registry argued that the law required Piroro to renounce his Mozambican citizenship before he applies for a passport in Zimbabwe.
But the High Court in March declared Piroro a Zimbabwean citizen on the grounds that he was born in Zimbabwe.
The same court ordered the RG's Office to issue him with a passport within 14 days of service of the order. But to date, the RG's Office has not complied with the order.
The RG's Office refused to renew Sebastian Piroro's Zimbabwean passport after the office discovered that his late father was born in Mozambique. Piroro is a special accountant and strategist with a Canadian bank.
He has been confined to Canada since the expiry of his passport last year.
Piroro claims that his job requires a lot of traveling in North America and he needs to attend international workshops and seminars to improve his skills and to plan for his bank.
According to the RG's Office, although Piroro was born in Zimbabwe some 44 years back, the fact that his father was born in Mozambique meant he now had dual citizenship.
The registry argued that the law required Piroro to renounce his Mozambican citizenship before he applies for a passport in Zimbabwe.
But the High Court in March declared Piroro a Zimbabwean citizen on the grounds that he was born in Zimbabwe.
The same court ordered the RG's Office to issue him with a passport within 14 days of service of the order. But to date, the RG's Office has not complied with the order.
Source - Herald
