The Herald (Harare)
1 July 2009
MUTARE West Member of the House of Assembly Shuah Mudiwa (MDC-T), his brother and a woman have been jailed for an effective four-and-a-half years each for kidnapping a 12-year-old girl and locking her up in an isolated room without food for two days.
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This story doesn't make any sense. Mudiwa was arrested around 2 months ago and charged about 2 weeks later; not in 2007. The article only gave the girls side of the story and doesn't mention a motive. I'd like to see the court transcript or an objective view of the case before I pass judgement.
The point of the previous comments was that justice should be applied without fear or favour to all and any politico. Whether Shuah Mudiwa is truly guilty or simply yet another victim of Mugabe's corrupted Justice Department cannot be determined from this article.
I agree with you Katz, 100 %. To do these evils deeds the perpatrators have to be brought to justice and justice in this sense has been served.
If these guys kidnapped the girls, then they deserve to rot in jail, no political intereference, this business of politiscizing criminal offences must just stop and let the judiciary do their work. Let this be a warning to politicians who commit criminal acts in the hope that they will use their political influence. If there are some MPs in ZPF commiting crimes, let this be a strong warning and they should also be dragged thru the courts. We are still to hear the fate of those ZPF and MDC MPs who abused the agricultural inputs, no sacred cows.