Controversial Attorney-General Johannes Tomana has set himself on a collision course with the MDC-T party after he poured scorn on their 2008 report documenting political murders.

In June 2008, MDC President Morgan Tsvangirai had to pull out of the Presidential election run-off due to unprecedented levels of political violence, abduction and torture of MDC activists and human rights defenders.

More than 500 MDC members were killed at the height of the political violence and close to half a million were forced to flee their homes in a campaign that was led by the military.

However the MDC was able to document almost all the atrocities including the dates, times and places where the crimes occurred. On realising the police were taking no action on the document, the MDC sent a copy to Tomana to follow up on the investigations.

But Tomana on Friday brushed aside the report, telling the weekly Zimbabwe Independent that he did not take it seriously, because it should not have been sent to him in the first place.

'Why are they disrespecting our systems? I will not be one of those that will be in the forefront to bring the systems down. It shows that they are not serious,' Tomana said.

The MDC has since 2008 fought the appointment of Tomana, a 'blue-eyed boy' of the ZANU PF regime, as the Attorney-General.

He took over as the country's chief prosecutor from Justice Bharat Patel, who was the acting AG following the unceremonial dismissal of Sobusa Gula-Ndebele, whose dismissal was linked to ZANU-PF in-fighting.

An MDC insider told us on Friday that the party hierarchy was deeply incensed by his remarks and were waiting for an appropriate occasion to reply to his statement.