Psychology Maziwisa and Oscar Pambuka are now facing jail after their appeal against conviction and sentence for defrauding the Zimbabwe P...
Maziwisa and Pambuka were sentenced to six years
imprisonment by Harare magistrate Lazini Ncube in 2018 after they were
fraudulently awarded a ZPC public relations contract through then Energy
minister Samuel Undenge without going to tender.
The State proved that the two misrepresented to ZPC that
they were directed to do PR for Zesa which was under fire over load shedding.
High Court judges dismissed the pair’s appeals saying all
the grounds for appeal were invalid.
“The merits of the conviction do not arise in an appeal
against sentence. In addition to that, the notice of appeal suffers from the
defectthat it has no prayer with respect to sentence. The appellants have
therefore not validly appealed against the sentence.”
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