The government is in no hurry to arrest Saviour Kasukuwere, according to George Charamba. “If a citizen has a problem at law, the charges ...
The government is in no hurry to arrest Saviour Kasukuwere, according to George Charamba.“If a citizen has a problem at law, the charges are raised against him through appropriate channels and then taken to court. That is how processes happen. You will start saying human rights have been violated.
“There are processes, if someone is accused of offending against any law. The logical thing is for the aggrieved party to raise those issues in a proper legal way,” he told Newsday.
Critics have accused authorities of using the phrase “criminals surrounding the President” as a smokescreen to push out Mugabe as no reasonable charge has been preferred against the accused.
However, Charamba said there was no need to bow to pressure of critics.
“Critics will always be with us, but justice is in fact certain and no government is driven by critics, but driven by due processes of law. The decent thing for all of us is to get to know if the man is going to be arraigned and if so on the basis of what alleged crimes and is he going to raise a defence, assuming that he is arraigned, that is the logical thing.
“We don’t act because there are critics, there is no government which is short of critics.”
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