The Magistrates' Courts are not willing to pass deterrent sentences against pirate taxis and street vendors wreaking havoc in the city centre and have rendered some roads impassable, the Harare City Council charged yesterday.
Responding to remarks by newly-appointed Prosecutor-General, Advocate Ray Goba, who accused the council of allowing the city to be turned into a jungle, Harare corporate communications manager Mr Michael Chideme said the Attorney General's Office had undermined the city's efforts to strengthen by-laws.
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