Harare — DEFENCE Minister Emmerson Mnangagwa is expected to appear in court next week as a State witness after he was named as one of the beneficiaries of inputs and other commodities looted from the Grain Marketing Board (GMB).
The Minister was initially meant to appear at the Harare Magistrates Court yesterday but the matter was postponed to Tuesday after prosecutor Benson Taruvinga told magistrate Lillian Kudya that the ZANU-PF legal supremo was committed elsewhere.
"But is he going to come?" asked the magistrate, to which Taruvinga replied: "I am informed that he will be available."
Mnangagwa was mentioned as a beneficiary of inputs and other commodities obtained illegally from the state granary by a former Central Intelligence Organisation operative Jeffrey Tabva who has been charged with fraud along with his accomplice, Andrew Raymond Williams.
It is the State's case that Tabva and Williams connived to prejudice the GMB of 720 x 50 kg bags of urea fertilizer, over 30 000kgs of flour, more than 70 metric tonnes of mealie-meal and 600x50kg bags of silo mealie-meal.
In his defense, Tabva alleged he had been sent by Mnangagwa among other ZANU-PF politicians to collect the products on their behalf.
"During the 2008 election period, the accused person was actively involved in the campaigns for ZANU-PF and made numerous purchases of various commodities for the benefit of party members in various constituencies," Tabva's lawyer, Itayi Ndudzo, said.
"The purchases were for the benefit of various politicians including the Honourable Minister Mnangagwa. At the instance of GMB officials some commodities for the benefit of Honourable Mnangagwa's constituency were dispatched in his name after the GMB had authenticated that the purchases were indeed for his benefit."
Ndudzo has since demanded that he be furnished with the Minister's statement before trial.
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What do you say Akayak .FULL measure of the law!!!!!! Hung drawn and quartered, would that be good enough? No one ,you say is above the LAW? Well just watch this case.Reminds me of "Here comes the Judge" quote:- "Just to show you I dont mean noone no good I'm gonna open up this court by giving myself 6 months".heeh heeh .What a crock a sh.t!!!
Watch this little case get covered up. I doubt that any of the important facts will see the light of day.
Gone are the days of 'the prophets.'
No 88, these days we are in right now are the days of the "the prophets" prophecies.That you may say they are gone is your refusal to accept what should and WILL come to pass.
The prophets have spoken, for it is written, that every knee shall bow and everytongue confess that Jesus Christ is Lord. He is our Judge. Let nit be known that what one does in the darkness shall be proclaimed from the roof tops. As I have said about the Roy Bennet case , I will say here, Let the courts decide. There maybe corruption in the courts yes, and those who do not serve the justice in a just way shall be held accountable to the Almighty. Just by Mnangagwa being summoned to court shows there is a case to be heard in any form. Just as Tony Blair was interviewed by the British police. Let justice prevail in its true form.
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