MDC ALLIANCE NAMIBIA DISTRICT CASTIGATES THE DELEGITIMISATION OF OUR COURTS
The right of an accused person to be represented by a lawyer of choice is one of the fundamental rights enshrined in the constitution of Zimbabwe.
We presume true that the court’s decision to baffle Beatrice Mtetwa from defending Hopewell Chin’ono is an attempt by Zanupf to obstruct justice.
Our advice is that Emmerson Dambudzo Mnangagwa must cease to treat our courts as a political institution run by greedy Zanupf thugs.
In the wake of our national democratic upheaval scandals over devastating effects of Corona virus and security crackdown on innocent citizens, partisan politics of repression has continued unabated in Zimbabwe. The malady is the delegitimisation of the judges appointed by the arrogant and cunning Zanupf Bonapartist government, which is currently being manipulated by stomach politicians who rigged elections in July 2018. We demand that the autocratic regime must start respecting the rights of accused persons to bail and fair hearing represented by lawyers of their choice. It must be clear that the judiciary should discharge their duties impartially, expeditiously and without prejudice.
Furthermore, the judges must commence to speak for the constitution of Zimbabwe not for corrupt individuals. The ruling that hindered Hopewell from choosing a lawyer of his choice is perculiar to the judgement delivered by the Supreme court to the political behemoth MDC ALLIANCE on the 31st of March 2020. The Supreme court gave Khupe illegal authority to recall our legislators from parliament and councillors from the local councils. It came with great shock that a competent court would rule that Khupe who dismally failed to win even one constituency before we consider proportional representation could be given authority to recall our MPs who contested against her in the harmonised 2018 elections. Even a Kangaroo court in Chibwedziva or Dotito could have done better.
Moreover, this kind of court capture has been perpetrated through a complex network of anonymously bribed judges like what was unearthed on the list of the Mechanisation scheme saga which unraveled some of our judges implicated as beneficiaries. Zanupf captured courts are neglecting their legislative duties to aggressively reconcoct and rewrite the 2013 constitution through illegal amendments during the lockdown when people are under a curfew. As social democrats we are perturbed by Zanupf’s appetite to amend the constitution before aligning it to the current laws of the country. This is an attempt to turn the trusted courts and constitution into a political weapon to decimate all dissenting voices.It is a catastrophic game that can’t be swallowed by social transformers in the national democratic revolution.
In addition, Zanupf terrorists must be warned that judges should not decide cases in the language of partisan politics. We are convinced that Justices or Judges were groomed to be reliable Zanupf emphathisers . Mdc Alliance Namibia postulates further that the nominations for High, Supreme and Constitutional Courts Justices/Judges are made partisan because Zanupf was confident that there would be no surprise packages in their rulings. Recently Chief Justice Malaba once proposed that all his subordinates should hand over judgements to him before delivering them down in our courts. This occured when different judgements were handed over in high court on whether Mdc Alliance is a political party or not. Some judges were convinced that it is a polittical party on its own versus Zanupf surrogates who are on their destructive mission to end the leadership of President Nelson Chamisa.
To top it off, the most recent cases of Hopewell, Godfrey Kurauone, Jacob Ngaribvumwe and the current closure of the much needed democratic space is a clear sign of a political crisis in Zimbabwe. It is apparent that Zanupf protects political power by upholding arbitrary arrests, torture and abductions on the voice of the voiceless.
#zimbabweanlivesmatter
#zanupfmustgo
#lootersmustgo
#handsbeatricemtetwa
#freegodfreykurauone
#freehopewellchin’ono
#freejacobngarivhumwe
#TheChangethatdelivers
Mdc Alliance Namibia
Rundu Branch Spokesperson
Robson Ruhanya