Charumbira off the hook

President of the Chief's Council, Chief Fortune Charumbira, is now off the hook after the High Court ordered Rural Development, Promotion and Preservation of National Culture and Heritage minister Abednego Ncube to stop investigating his contested chieftainship.

Justice David Mangota made the ruling yesterday after Charumbira applied for an interdict order barring the ministry's investigative team, led by Fanuel Mkwaira, from pursuing the matter.

In his urgent chamber application filed in May, Chief Charumbira said the proposed investigative team had already been set in motion, but was in contravention of the Constitution.

Charumbira had cited Ncube in his official capacity, Fainos Mapingure, Mkwaira, Kutamahufa and Edgar Senza as respondents.