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*'Muguti Clearly A Danger To Society And To Himself'* *Follow Pindula on WhatsApp for daily new updates* https://whatsapp.com/channel/0029Va84dngJP21B2nWeyM3v?da United Kingdom-based Zimbabwean academic Alex Magaisa has criticised Harare Provincial Development Coordinator (PDC), Tafadzwa Muguti for purportedly exercising powers that he doesn’t possess. This comes after Muguti Wednesday directed Non-governmental organisations (NGOs) and churches, among other organisations, to seek operational clearance through his office. ---------- itel A70 256GB $99USD WhatsApp: https://wa.me/+263715068543 Calls: 0772464000 ---------- Commenting on Muguti’s directive, Magaisa, a law lecturer at the University of Kent, United Kingdom, said Muguti is now “intoxicated by a false sense of power”. Wrote Magaisa: > This chap, one Tafadzwa Muguti* has a disproportionately elevated opinion of himself. If he’s not demolishing homes, he’s trying to control civil society organisations. > Conspicuously missing in this extravagant demand is the law under which he’s exercising his phantom power. He just refers to an MoU. An MoU is not a law. > It is trite that the conduct of governmental and administrative affairs must be based on the law. > Someone told him he is a Provincial Development Coordinator & he sees himself as Harare’s Prime Minister. > He even has “Office of the Provincial Coordinator” on his letterhead! Intoxicated by a false sense of power, he just wakes up and decides that he’s going to do something, no legal basis for it, just his whim! > A decent bureaucrat would have said, “acting under X Act, I require the following information which is required in terms of the law”. > But Muguti cannot do that because his role is a fiction created by the regime. He’s just a ZANU PF impostor masquerading as a serious public officer. His demand in this poorly written letter cannot survive judicial review. > The first basic test of any administrative action is that it must be lawful. Section 68 of the Conis clear but he probably doesn’t even have a copy of the supreme law of the country. In other words, it must be based on existing law. > There’s no law that gives this chap the power that he’s flaunting. It’s called arbitrary rule. The chap is, quite clearly, a danger to society and to himself. > The trouble is that instead of getting together to resist this unlawful demand, some will quietly comply, giving him an unwarranted sense of self-importance. > That is the problem of habituating to authoritarian rule. People comply with unlawful demands in the name of survival. > The proper way is to challenge the unlawful exercise of this power through judicial review. > … For the avoidance of doubt to my fellow St Francis of Assisi alumni, this not our Tafadzwa Muguti. He is a decent man schooled by the Franciscans! _If you found this article useful_ *Please support Pindula by forwarding to friends and groups*
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