Zimbabwe: Mutasa, Mliswa Cry Foul Over Lost Seats

27 March 2015

FORMER Zanu-PF secretary for administration Mr Didymus Mutasa and his nephew Mr Temba Mliswa have argued that National Assembly Speaker Advocate Jacob Mudenda erred in declaring their parliamentary seats vacant without establishing the legal validity of the duo's expulsion from the rulingparty.

In the heads of argument filed on Tuesday at the Constitutional Court ahead of the April 1 hearing, Mr Mutasa and Mr Mliswa said Adv Mudenda rubber-stamped the position of Zanu-PF without satisfying himself that the expulsion was indeed valid.

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