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High Court postpones MDC-T 'special votes' case
17 Jul 2013 at 20:13hrs | Views
The High Court has postponed the matter in which the MDC-T through its lawyers was seeking the nullification of the special vote sighting inflation of numbers of police officers eligible to vote.
Initially the MDC-T had applied for an interdict seeking to stop the conducting of the special vote reserved for serving members of the security forces sighting a number of irregularities.
The relief sought was premised on the requirement by the MDC-T to be furnished with adequate details on the number of police officers who applied for the special vote, those granted authority and eligible to vote, vis-a-vis the number present on the Ministry of Finance's payroll.
Emerging from Judge President George Chiweshe's chambers, the MDC-T's lawyer Advocate Lewis Uriri indicated that the issue of interdicting the holding of the special vote was water under the bridge, but he indicated that his clients wanted verification on the numbers of police officers given that contrary to the 69 000 indicated by ZEC, only 44 113 appear on the pay roll.
ZEC's legal representative Charles Nyika said the issue of verifying the actual figures of police was out of ZEC's jurisdiction though he was informed that the number includes members of the police constabulary who do not form part of the civil servants' pay roll.
Judge President Chiweshe is said to have postponed the matter to Thursday the 18th to allow the issue of the verification of the number of police officers to be done.
Initially the MDC-T had applied for an interdict seeking to stop the conducting of the special vote reserved for serving members of the security forces sighting a number of irregularities.
The relief sought was premised on the requirement by the MDC-T to be furnished with adequate details on the number of police officers who applied for the special vote, those granted authority and eligible to vote, vis-a-vis the number present on the Ministry of Finance's payroll.
ZEC's legal representative Charles Nyika said the issue of verifying the actual figures of police was out of ZEC's jurisdiction though he was informed that the number includes members of the police constabulary who do not form part of the civil servants' pay roll.
Judge President Chiweshe is said to have postponed the matter to Thursday the 18th to allow the issue of the verification of the number of police officers to be done.
Source - zbc
