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Fresh charges laid against the MRP top official.

by Stephen Jakes
11 Feb 2017 at 07:31hrs | Views
In a possibly anticipated change of the mind, the Lupane Criminal Investigations Department Law and Order summoned the Mthwakazi Republic Party Secretary General Hloniphani Ncube  to undergo fresh investigations citing that there were newly founded developments on the arrest of the party top officials during the Mlamuli gathering which took place on the 14th of December 2016 which was a resounding success.

MRP spokesperson Mbonisi Gumbo said in this unfortunate incident 11 top officials of the party were controversial arrested by the state agents of the brutal government .

"As a law abiding political party the Secretary General heed to the nonsensical call and presented himself to the Lupane officers. The investigating officers asked the similar questions when they initially investigated the Secretary General and other top party official. They were charged with participating in an unlawful gathering intending to incite violence a charge which was a directive from Harare not a substantiated offence," he said. "However, the president of Mthwakazi Republic Party Mqondisi Moyo was mysteriously given a separate charge without evidence which alleged that he contravened section 25 (1) (5) of the Public Order and Security Act chapter 11; 17 (Notice of processions, public administrations and Public meetings) whilst on that particular gathering he was just an invited guest along with other top officials of the party."

He said when they (CID) summoned the Secretary General on the 8th of January 2018 in a controversial change of mind they decided to lay a fresh charge to the Secretary General which is similar with the charge laid against MRP President  Mqondisi Moyo which took them more than two months to reach yet another doomed decision.

"The Secretary General was supposed to go through court proceedings as per initial recommendations of the public prosecutor of Lupane Magistrate Court, and at 16:30 hours Central African Time the prosecutor changed his mind citing that such a matter needed to be handled by two magistrates and Lupane had one. He proposed that the Lupane CID Law and Order section would have to arrange for the Secretary General to go through two magistrates courts something which can also be perceived as unnecessary and unplanned summons by the institutions which are supposed to exhibit a high level of integrity," he said.

"This does not come as a surprise as 2012  police guiding principles released by (Commissioner General Police) Augustine Chihuri notes that officers are to give "customers" a full measure of their service. According to Chihuri policing is therefore a business rather than being public service. Thus why there are so many road blocks and corruption because Chihuri views the public as customers, not as people who are supposed to be served and thus a primitive assertion. How can the country develop being led by such fools masquerading as leaders. This is a doomed and a directionless institution."

Gumbo said the Mlamuli case started with the arrests of Mlamuli parents after they had demonstrated.

"Now it vivid how weak the state institutions are under the Zanu PF leadership. It is clear that MRP officials were merely arrested on assumptions and investigated latter which is highly primitive. This does not surprise us because the justice system of Zimbabwe is led by a Gukurahundist who masterminded the killings of more than 20 000 innocent civilians and the world just permitted such a novice to walk free and continually manipulate the justice system and this is a shame and mockery of justice. To us entrusting Emmerson  Mnangagwa to lead the justice system is like giving the prostitute the responsibility to be a pastor. His place in our government which would rule in our life time is jail and hell thereafter," he said.

"We further send a warning to the Zimbabwean government that if they continue to target Mthwakazi Republic Party officials who are busy campaigning in Mthwakazi which happens to be their territory,  we will reach a stage whereby we will not allow to be trialed by the flawed Zimbabwean justice system which is confused. We are not confused as a political party and we do not want the demon of confusion rocking the Zanu PF system to be passed to us. We urge the justice system to be confident enough and to be humble enough to dismiss the baseless accusations by Mnangagwa."

"I believe in Zimbabwe there are serious crimes committed by Mugabe and his confused cabinet and the little judiciary resources must be channelled towards addressing these criminals not law abiding MRP officials and it's supporters. We are for peace and justice in our life time."

Source - Byo24News