HARARE – Former Foreign Affairs Minister Walter Mzembi has been ordered to be committed to prison pending trial after a Harare regional magistrate confirmed three outstanding warrants of arrest against him.
Magistrate Donald Ndirowei dismissed Mzembi’s application challenging his placement on remand and ordered him to return to court on Friday for the allocation of a trial date.
The decision follows Mzembi’s arrest last month, after he failed to appear in court since November 2018. His lawyers had stated he was out of the country seeking medical attention for cancer.
On June 17, Magistrate Ndirowei revoked Mzembi’s bail, ruling that the former minister’s failure to attend court was deliberate.
“It has not been proven that for all these years he was bedridden such that he could not travel to Zimbabwe to cancel his warrants of arrest,” Ndirowei said in his ruling.
The magistrate also noted that Mzembi had been politically active during his time abroad, serving as the campaign manager for presidential candidate Saviour Kasukuwere.
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Source: Nehandaradio
