CIO chases away white farmer

Martin Grobbler a Goromonzi white commercial farmer, has filed an urgent chamber application at the High Court seeking to retain his Buena Farm, which was allegedly seized by members of the Central Intelligence Organisation (CIO) last week.

The matter, which was supposed to be heard yesterday before High Court judge Justice Happious Zhou, was deferred to Monday next week after one of the defendants, Ivy Rupanda, failed to attend the hearing.

In his application filed under case number HC7924/15, Grobbler said he had sought refuge at his neighbours' farm after the alleged CIO's Shorai Kudzai Muchemwa and Rupanda, invaded the farm last Friday while in the company of Mashonaland East chief lands officer one Motsi and district lands officer Abigail Mangwiro.