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Magistrate
under threat for ruling against hooligans - Mashonaland Central
Restoration of Human Rights (ROHR)
March 13, 2010
A magistrate
who has refused to be named for fear of further victimization has
been seriously threatened and put under immense pressure by a top
ZANU PF official who wants to sway the course of justice delivery
in favor of five ZANU Pf party supporters.
ROHR Zimbabwe is reliably
informed that the magistrate was phoned before delivering a judgment
yesterday and threatened by an indignant top wig ZANU Pf, and governor
of Mashonaland central, Dinha who ordered him to oblige with an
order to award bail to Wellington Chitehwe known as comrade John,
Anyway Mavhangira, Jonah Nyakudya, Magaso and another 5th accomplice.
The five were
last year charged with theft and causing malicious damage to property
when they vandalized the house and stole property belonging to the
MDC deputy chairman for Mashonaland central, Tongai Jack during
the reign of sponsored terror in last year's bloody organized
election violence of June 2008.
Against the
odds, the defiant brave magistrate defied the threats and dismissed
the appeal for the application. Conversely, the judgment has inconceivable
angered the governor's scheme to illicitly forge a release
for criminals and in the process reward wrong doing and undermining
efforts of seeing a just society that respects the rule of law.
Promotion of
the culture of impunity eats up the moral fabric and smacks in the
face of peace building initiatives aimed at restoring sanity in
the country at a time when Zimbabwe is grappling to locate her feet
from a painful legacy of violence.
ROHR Zimbabwe
will not tire to name and shame all those who are found on the wrong
side of the law, abusing their authority and power to satisfy their
personal interest at whim albeit at the cost of the rights of down
trodden innocent men, women and children. The culture of impunity
cannot core exist with efforts to establish genuine peace and respect
for human rights.
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