A HARARE business couple, which is seeking $6,5 million from United
Family International Church (UFIC) leader, Emmanuel Makandiwa and his
wife, Ruth, have approached the High Court seeking dismissal of the
church leaders’ application.
Makandiwa and his wife, early this year filed a court application
challenging Upenyu and Blessing Mashangwa’s lawsuit describing it, as
“grandstanding to harass, vex and injure their reputation and good
standing.”
In a chamber application for dismissal filed on Tuesday,
Mashangwa and his wife urged the court to dismiss the Makandiwas’
application on the basis that the pair had failed to timeously prosecute
their court application.
“The respondents (Makandiwas) have neglected or failed to
timeously prosecute the court application, which they instituted before
this honourable court under case number HC1774/18. A period in excess of
one month has lapsed after the applicants (Mashangwas) filed their
notice of opposition. The respondents have not yet filed their answering
affidavit nor set the matter down,” the Mashangwas said through their
lawyers, Venturas and Samukange.
“The respondents have neglected or shown a lack of interest in
prosecuting their court application to finality and applicants entitled
as they, hereby, do make, an application for dismissal for want of
prosecution.”
The matter is yet to be set down for hearing.
The impasse between the two couples came after Makandiwa and his
wife were last year slapped with a multi-million lawsuit by the
Mashangwas after they had allegedly been victims of phoney prophecy
promising them a “debt cancellation miracle”.
But, in response to the lawsuit, Makandiwa and his wife said the
claims by the couple were “deliberately false and contrived” and urged
the court to dismiss the case, saying there was no factual or legal
basis that had been pleaded or could be pleaded, upon which a court
could pronounce that they were not prophets of God.
Mashangwa and his wife came out guns blazing, describing the Makandiwas as occult worshipers and fraudsters. Newsday
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