BUYANGA SET TO BE FREED

Businessman Frank Buyanga’s warrant of arrest has been cancelled by a Harare court. Harare magistrate Judith Taruvinga said the warrant was ...

Businessman Frank Buyanga’s warrant of arrest has been cancelled by a Harare court. Harare magistrate Judith Taruvinga said the warrant was issued in error.

Buyanga has been locked up at Sun City Prison in South Africa since Thursday. He filed an application for cancellation of the arrest warrant saying it was illegally issued. The State had opposed the cancellation of the warrant saying Buyanga was placed on Interpol’s red notice on July 7, 2020.

But Buyanga said when he left Zimbabwe; he had not committed the alleged criminal offences of kidnapping his son and robbery as spelt out on the warrant of arrest in question. Buyanga said the Interpol red notice was based on the irregular warrant of arrest emanating from the magistrates court.