Zim cops hunt for Baba Jukwa in America

IN  a futile attempt to locate the shadowy Facebook character which has been haunting Zanu PF officials since last year, the Zimbabwe government has deployed its security detail to travel to the United States of America to hunt for Baba Jukwa.

A court in Harare yesterday heard that the State has deployed Police Law and Order boss Crispen Makedenge to USA where he is expected to gather evidence to engage Facebook and Google in a quest to find evidence which can implicate

Sunday Mail editor Edmund Kudzayi and his elder brother Philip who are suspected be Baba Jukwa.

The two brothers who are facing charges of attempting to subvert a constitutional government by waging "cyber-terrorism" against the State through the use of the social network, Facebook, were back at the Harare Magistrates' Court yesterday where they made a second bid to be removed from routine remand.

Prosecutor-General (PG)'s representative Sharon Mashavira told provincial magistrate Milton Serima that Makedenge had already left the country and was expected back by the end of the week or early next week.

The revelations by the State followed an application for further remand refusal by the Kudzai brothers through their lawyer Admire Rubaya.

In response to the State's request for further remand, Rubaya, urged the court to consider removing his clients from remand and order the State to proceed against them by way of summons.

Rubaya said it was apparent from the continuous further remands requested by the State that the PG's Office was not yet ready to proceed to trial.

His request was in response to prosecutor Mashavira's submission that it was too early for the Kudzai brothers to seek removal from remand given the complexity of the matter.

Rubaya also bemoaned the State's delay in concluding the case saying they deliberately dilly-dallied.