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Tendai Rupapa Senior Court Reporter
The trial of MDC-T deputy national chairman Morgen Komichi, accused of breaking the country’s electoral laws, is expected to resume today after a week-long break. Officer Commanding the Criminal Investigations Department Law and Order section Chief Superintendent Crispen Makedenge is expected to testify in the on-going trial.
The trial adjourned for a week because prosecutor Mr Michael Mugabe of the Attorney-General’s Office was not available. He had travelled out of the country.
However, the trial failed to resume yesterday after Mr Mugabe told the court that its seventh witness Chief Supt Makedenge who is the investigating officer in the case, was away on national duty.
He said he would be available today.
Magistrate Mr Tendai Mahwe rolled over the matter to today for resumption of trial.
Komichi was arrested on July 28 on allegations of misrepresenting to the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission that he had “picked up” from a dust bin, a sealed tamper-proof envelope with a special vote ballot paper at the Harare International Conference Centre.
Komichi allegedly approached Zec deputy director of public relations Mr Tendai Pamire and told him that an unnamed person informed him that they had picked an envelope from a dustbin at the HICC where the special vote was being processed.
He further alleged that he had opened it out of curiosity and discovered that there were ballot papers cast by the police in favour of MDC-T by a Constable Mugove Chiginya.
The commission reported the matter to the police and investigations showed that Cst Chiginya had failed to vote in the special voting exercise as his name had not been called out by the presiding officer.
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