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Mwonzora engages Chamisa as his lawyer
29 Jan 2015 at 06:18hrs | Views
In a funny twist of fate, opposition MDC-T former organising secretary Nelson Chamisa has turned up at the ConCourt as his erstwhile political foe, Douglas Mwonzora's lawyer.
Mwonzora stands accused of insulting President Robert Mugabe and has approached the highest court in the land challenging sections of the Criminal Law Codification and Reform Act.
Last year Chamisa lost the opposition party's secretary general position to Mwonzora in controversial circumstances amid reports has indicated that the bad blood between the two has continued ever since.
State papers show that, Mwonzora at a rally held in Nyanga in 2009 insulted President Mugabe by calling him a goblin.
Meanwhile, Chief justice Godfrey Chidyausiku yesterday put the National Prosecuting Authority (NPA) to task to explain whether it was constitutional for the State to prosecute politicians for name-calling the Head of State "Gamatox" or "weevil" while addressing political rallies.
Justice Chidyausiku made the statement in apparent reference to the case against former Nyanga North MP Douglas Mwonzora, who stands accused of labelling President Robert Mugabe a "goblin", during a rally held in Nyanga 2009.
"Politicians call each other names such as weevils and Gamatox, are you suggesting that you prosecute people for that?" Justice Chidyausiku asked the Prosecutor-General's Representative Admore Nyazamba. If somebody calls the President a weevil or Gamatox, are you going to prosecute that person? It is part of the trade of politics. Why are you bringing such matters to the Constitutional Court? The President is not a goblin and we all know that. Why should the law bother itself about it? You have to be an imbecile to believe that the President is a goblin."
But Nyazamba said in Mwonzora's case, he had allegedly labelled the Head of State a goblin which "feeds on human blood".
Mwonzora stands accused of insulting President Robert Mugabe and has approached the highest court in the land challenging sections of the Criminal Law Codification and Reform Act.
Last year Chamisa lost the opposition party's secretary general position to Mwonzora in controversial circumstances amid reports has indicated that the bad blood between the two has continued ever since.
State papers show that, Mwonzora at a rally held in Nyanga in 2009 insulted President Mugabe by calling him a goblin.
Meanwhile, Chief justice Godfrey Chidyausiku yesterday put the National Prosecuting Authority (NPA) to task to explain whether it was constitutional for the State to prosecute politicians for name-calling the Head of State "Gamatox" or "weevil" while addressing political rallies.
Justice Chidyausiku made the statement in apparent reference to the case against former Nyanga North MP Douglas Mwonzora, who stands accused of labelling President Robert Mugabe a "goblin", during a rally held in Nyanga 2009.
"Politicians call each other names such as weevils and Gamatox, are you suggesting that you prosecute people for that?" Justice Chidyausiku asked the Prosecutor-General's Representative Admore Nyazamba. If somebody calls the President a weevil or Gamatox, are you going to prosecute that person? It is part of the trade of politics. Why are you bringing such matters to the Constitutional Court? The President is not a goblin and we all know that. Why should the law bother itself about it? You have to be an imbecile to believe that the President is a goblin."
But Nyazamba said in Mwonzora's case, he had allegedly labelled the Head of State a goblin which "feeds on human blood".
Source - Zim Mail
