By Political Reporter
Government will not interfere with the duties of the Judiciary as Zimbabwe is a constitutional democracy that respects the rule of law.
This was said by Zanu PF Secretary for Information and Publicity Ambassador Simon Khaya Moyo yesterday while responding to a statement by Amnesty International that was published in the Newsday, demanding that President Mnangagwa’s administration should immediately release from custody, Job Sikhala, Fadzayi Mahere and Hopewell Chin’ono.
“Having noted an article published by the Newsday newspaper on 18 January 2021 on page 2 titled “Release Chin’ono, Mahere, Sikhala, ED told”, the revolutionary Zanu PF party, wishes to put it on record that the governance of the country is premised on the rule of law. This implies the separation of powers as evidenced by the existence of the Executive, the Judiciary and the Legislature. Zimbabwe is indeed a constitutional democracy not a banana republic.
“To expect His Excellency, the President Cde ED Mnangagwa to interfere with law enforcement agencies and the judiciary is absurdity in the extreme. The same organization will cry foul if such illegality was to be implemented,” said Ambassador Khaya Moyo.
Comrade Moyo further said that Zanu PF takes great exception to the demands by Amnesty International and its acolytes for President Mnangagwa to order the release of Chin’ono, Mahere and Sikhala from lawful custody.
Ambassador Moyo reminded Amnesty International that no one is above the law irrespective of one’s political affiliation.
“All citizens who are suspected to have committed crime in Zimbabwe are subjected to due processes of the law irrespective of one’s political affiliation and station in life. No one is above the law and the Constitution should be respected by all citizens,” said Ambassador Moyo.
Chin’ono, Mahere and Sikhala were recently arrested for communicating false information. The trio lied on social media that the Zimbabwe Republic Police officer had beaten and killed a child strapped to its mother’s back using a baton stick, an assertion that has since been dismissed by the police as not only misleading but grossly false.
