By Own Correspondent| Former Commissioner-general Augustine Chihuri, who has failed to attend court and several sessions of the Parliamentary Portfolio Committee on Mines and Energy has written to the committee revealing that he is too sick to attend.

The former police boss , who is reportedly in Malawi at his inlaws where he is recuperating notified parliament that he will present himself before the committee when has recovered.

Chairperson of the Portfolio Committee who is the sitting legislator for Norton, Temba Mliswa said Chihuri indicated willingness to appear before the committee once he recovers.

“He wrote a letter to explain he was not feeling well but explained his side of the story,” said Mliswa.

“When he feels better, he is willing to appear before us so there is nothing that is swept under the carpet.”

Chihuri  was exposed in previous parliamentary hearings by former commissioners from the Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP) where it emerged that he ran Gye Nyame, the ZRP diamond mine as his own personal business.

Several former police bosses professed ignorance during parliamentary portfolios hearings  on Mines and Energy over how the diamond mining firm was run and how much money it made.