Award-winning Zimbabwean lawyer, Beatrice Mtetwa, wept in front of cameras on Friday while explaining how rotten the Justice system in Zimbabwe is after a court issued a warrant of arrest for Marry Mubaiwa for failing to climb court stairs.
Mubaiwa, a former model, is being accused of attempting to kill her ex-husband, Vice President Constantino Chiwenga. She denies the charges and claims that the former military boss manufactured the charges to find an excuse for divorce. Watch the video below in which Mtetwa gives a court update. Credit AMH.
Marry who is a former wife to former Warriors striker Shingirai Kawondera Friday failed to attend court proceedings despite being at the courts as she was too ill to leave her vehicle.
The presiding magistrate issued her a warrant of arrest for failing to climb the stairs to the courtroom.
The magistrate was convinced Mary Mubaiwa was feigning illness.
But what do doctors say ? The magistrate must base his decision on the doctor's report. In the court of public opinion Mary is ill.
We have not been updated whether she is at Chikurubi or not.
Last time citizens were told that her lawyer had argued that Zimbabwe courts were incompetent to try an attempted murder case which occurred in South Africa. This was a legally good argument. We did not hear what the court said in its ruling.
The problem with our judiciary these days is that politicians throw spanners into the engine.
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@Machiavelli. Please pardon the Bush Lawyer. He often enunciates ''Law of the Jungle''. The jungle from whence he attained his Bachelor of Bush Laws degree (LBBs) The State Prosecutors are procedurally empowered to do an inspection in loco - i.e; go to a scene of the crime or any other place to see for themselves & draw their own conclusions. State prosectotors could have gone to the Accussed person'd car, and upon sayisfying themselves that Marry is unfit to stand trial, they would not oppose extension of Marry's remand. Even the courts' Bailiff could have done the inspection. In the worst case scenario, the Magistrate should have issued an Administrative Warrant of Arrest, which allows the accussed person to go & seek medical treatment within a specific period of time. After that specific period, the Warrant can be executed if the accussed does present herself before the court.
Anyway, it appears the good VP / rtd General was already in another relationship when he fell ill. The speed at which he remmarried a new spouse before finalisation of his court cases speaks volumes.
@BushLawyer, if you listened to Beatrice Mtetwa in the video, you would have learnt that Marry Mubaiwa was sitting in a car, in the car park just outside the court building. It didn't require a doctor to certify Marry's inability to climb the stairs to court, and as Beatrice indicated Marry was so incapacitated that she succumbed incontinence and soiled herself in the car because she couldn't even go to the toilet.
Beatrice had respectfully requested the court to go down to the car and assess Marry's condition and the (S.T.U.P.I.D.) Magistrate refused. Yet the magistrate went on to issue a warrant of arrest.
This by any stretch of imagination is NOT the Court of Public Opinion. It is a fact that Marry is I'll. To any reasoning person, this is a travesty of justice, and for Beatrice to break down and cry during a press conference says it all.
THIS COUNTRY HAS GONE TO THE DOGS. And in saying so I feel sad to be insulting dogs.