Prosecutor-general Ray Goba has failed to prosecute several high profile corruption cases and now risks losing his job. The Judiciary ...
Prosecutor-general Ray Goba has failed to prosecute several
high profile corruption cases and now risks losing his job.
The Judiciary Service Commission has written and asked
him to give reasons why a tribunal should not be set up to investigate his
suitability to hold office.
The Standard reports that Goba is also accused of putting
his office into disrepute by trading insults with lawyers and has allegedly
been sneaking out of the country, on certain occasions, without Cabinet’s
authority.
Yesterday Goba would neither deny nor confirm that he
received the letter from the JSC. “Where did you get that from? That is very
interesting, that’s my comment,” he said.
Goba took over from Johannes Tomana, who was fired by
former president Robert Mugabe in July last year.
Tomana was accused of refusing to prosecute former Telecel
acting chairperson Jane Mutasa and former Bikita West MP Munyaradzi Kereke, who
was later convicted of rape.
President Emmerson Mnangagwa recently appointed an
anti-corruption commission unit in his office, saying the NPA had failed to
effectively deal with corruption cases.
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