The ZRP was today slapped by the High Court and ordered to pay costs in the case the opposition MDC led by Morgan Tsvangirai sued the police for clearance to hold the demonstration on the missing $15billion.

Thanks to lawyers Kennedy Masiye and Sharon Hofisi of the Zimbabwe Lawyers for Human Rights who mounted the legal battle at the High Court and successfully argued to secure a court order from High Court Judge Justice Happias Zhou interdicting Zimbabwe Republic Police officers from interfering with an MDC-T protest against rising poverty and the corruption scourge in Zimbabwe, the suit pulled through.
The lawyers filed an urgent chamber application at the High Court Tuesday evening seeking to interdict the Zimbabwe Republic Police from interfering with its planned protest scheduled for Thursday 14 April 2016 against rising poverty levels and corruption in Zimbabwe.
In the application (Case Number 3848/16), Masiye and Hofisi asked the High Court to issue an order barring Chief Superintent Newbert Saunyama, the ZRP Officer Commanding Harare Central District, Police Commissioner-General Augustine Chihuri and Home Affairs Minister Ignatius Chombo not to interfere with the MDC-T’s protest and for them not to interrupt, disturb or discourage the opposition party’s supporters from participating in the demonstration. The filing of the urgent chamber application was prompted by the ZRP’s response to the MDC-T’s notification to stage the demonstration of which the police “discouraged” the opposition party from protesting on the basis that “mass demonstrations interrupts the smooth flow of both human and vehicular traffic and that there is not enough manpower to cover the demonstration as “most police officers will be engaged in preparation for independence celebrations.”