admincriminal use and breaching the Official Secrets Act. The State was yesterday expected to provide a trial date but prosecutor Mr Tungamirai Chakurira indicated to the court that they were waiting for Mr Michael Mugabe from the Attorney General’s office to furnish the four with the date.
“Your Worship, the matter is not seized with us, it is being handled by an officer from the AG’s office who will come and give these accused persons their trial date.
“In the meantime, what we can do is to seek an adjournment to allow that officer to come and appear and give these accused persons their trial date,” he said.
The quartet’s lawyer Mr Chris Mhike opposed the State’s application saying; “We cannot continue to stand down this matter, the only logical thing to do is to give it a long remand so that the State may adequately prepare.” Magistrate Mr Donald Ndirowei ruled that the matter be postponed to April 8.
Allegations against the four arose on March 17 when detectives received information that they were in possession of dockets they were privately compiling to discredit the judicial system. It is alleged in the dockets they claimed that the police and the AG had failed or refused to investigate cases of corruption involving prominent people in Government.
It is alleged the four had documents of police Commissioner-General Augustine Chihuri’s background and another titled “Case for a full investigation into the Ministry of Lands-System of issuing offer letters 1 September 2009.”
A team of detectives went to Mpofu’s residence and found some of the documents, including a laptop and a pistol.
The State alleges that the suspects indicated that they were legal advisors to the Prime Minister and researching on alleged corruption and criminal abuse of office and the appointment of Comm-Gen Chihuri.
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