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Ex-State House boss loses freedom bid
Chief Court Reporter
FORMER principal director of State Residences, Douglas Tapfuma, has lost a High Court appeal to quash both conviction and a four-year imprisonment term imposed on him for criminal abuse of office.
Tapfuma was in July last year jailed effective four years and had six vehicles forfeited to the State following his conviction on three charges of criminal abuse of office.
Aggrieved with the trial court’s decision, Tapfuma took the matter up to the High Court on appeal.
But sitting as an appellant court, two judges of the High Court Justice Benjamin Chikowero and Justice Pisirayi Kwenda, upheld both the conviction and sentence.
Go back to law school, judge tells PG Hodzi
By Desmond Chingarande
THE glaring legal deficiencies in Prosecutor-General Kumbirai Hodzi, who was preferred for the job despite faring poorly in public interviews held in 2019, were exposed on Thursday when High Court judge Justice Tawanda Chitapi asked him to go back to the law school and familiarise himself with the country’s statutes after he spectacularly bungled a bail appeal in a high-profile robbery case.
Justice Chitapi said this while dismissing Hodzi’s appeal against bail granted to suspected notorious armed robber, Musa Taj Abdul, his accomplices Rudolph Tapiwa Kanhanga and Godfrey Mupamhanga. The trio was granted bail by High Court judge Benjamin Chikowero last December.
By Mary Taruvinga
EFFORTS by Prosecutor General (PG) Kumbirai Hodzi to have suspected notorious armed robber Musa Taj Abdul jailed hit a brick wall after High Court judge, Justice Tawanda Chitapi dismissed his application due to lack of merit.
Abdul and his accomplices Rudolph Tapiwa Kanhanga and Godfrey Mupamhanga were arrested in August last year before they were granted bail by High Court judge, Justice Benjamin Chikowero following a successful appeal.
However, the trio could not enjoy its freedom as it was charged with more armed robbery counts before release following a public outcry.
Hodzi then filed an application calling for committal of the three to jail adding Justice Chikowero’s bail order should be revisited.
By Staff Reporter
HIGH Court judge, Justice Benjamin Chikowero has dismissed Marry Mubaiwa’s application for her bail conditions to be relaxed to enable her to travel to South Africa for medical treatment.
However, the judge dismissed Mubaiwa’s application ruling the case lacked merit.
“Applicant has placed inadequate information before the court to warrant alteration of her bail condition. In the result, the application is dismissed,” Justice Chikowero ruled.
He said Mubaiwa had failed to substantiate her claims.
“She has produced neither medical reports nor other medical records to substantiate her assertion that she had failed to obtain the care that she needs in this country. I only have Mr. Makarawo’s letter, written on November, 6, 2020. So there is that gap in the evidence,” he noted.