adminZvoma wins job reprieve
Daniel Nemukuyu Senior Reporter
THE High Court has nullified last month’s Parliamentary motion seeking to dismiss Clerk of Parliament Mr Austin Zvoma for failing to respect legislators, on the grounds that Parliament failed to follow correct procedures.
According to last month’s resolution, a five-member committee was to be set up to determine Mr Zvoma’s fate.
The court found that such a committee could not judge Mr Zvoma, but only impose a penalty should he be found guilty of an offence.
The judgment was given in Justice Francis Bere’s chambers.
Lawyers from both sides confirmed that the judge had granted the order sought by Mr Zvoma and they praised the judge for passing a “well-reasoned” judgment.
The judgment dealt with the procedures followed, not with the substance of the charges by some in Parliament against Mr Zvoma.
Generally, the courts do not interfere with Parliamentary decisions, but on the rules that are followed to reach those decisions.
The lawyers said the court found that the motion was punitive in nature and that the committee to be established would not determine the guilt or otherwise, but only the penalty.
Woman ‘loans’ 6-month-old baby to friend
From George Maponga in MASVINGO
IN a bizarre case, a Masvingo woman reportedly loaned her six-month-old baby girl to another woman for her to claim maintenance from her boyfriend who is a truck driver. The two women were, however, arrested for fraud and contravening sections of the Child Protection and Adoption Act.
Magret Dick (22) and Ndaizivei Moyo (24), both of Rujeko C suburb, were on Tuesday arrested after Moyo disappeared with Dick’s baby, prompting the latter to lodge a police report.
Dick spilled the beans, leading to their arrest.
Moyo had allegedly lied to her boyfriend that she had given birth and hatched a plan to use Dick’s child to claim support.
Masvingo police spokesman Inspector Tineyi Matake yesterday said they arrested the pair after Dick reported the matter to the police accusing her friend of disappearing with her child.
According to the deal, the child was supposed to be returned after two days.
“We arrested the two women after they conspired to trick Moyo’s boyfriend that she had given birth, yet the child belonged to Dick.”
It is alleged that Moyo took the baby to her rural home in Rusape.
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