A Harare magistrate has told former MP, Psychology Maziwisa and Oscar Pambuka that they have a case to answer. The pair are facing cha...
A Harare magistrate has told former MP, Psychology Maziwisa
and Oscar Pambuka that they have a case to answer.
The pair are facing charges of swindling the Zimbabwe Power
Company (ZPC) of $12 650 in a botched public relations deal. They had applied
for a discharge.
Magistrate Lazini Ncube remanded them to November 1 for
their defence. Ncube said two State witnesses — suspended television services
head Tazzen Mandizvidza and bulletins manager Moses Charedzera — had
corroborated with each other’s testimony that the accused had no role in the
production of news at the national broadcaster.
“The accused person also did not deny submitting the two
invoices and now the question is that they should answer what they were paid
for?” he said. Ncube also dismissed the two’s application that the State should
prosecute Fruitful Communication instead of them in their individual
capacities.
The magistrate said there was nothing wrong with the
State’s decision to charge an individual director or employee of a company.
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