Suspended University
of Zimbabwe (UZ) vice chancellor Levi Nyagura will now stand trial on May 16
after his application for exception was today thrown out by a Harare
magistrate.
Nyagura is accused of illegally awarding former First Lady
Grace Mugabe a PhD. In his application for exception and quashing of an
indictment, Nyagura through his lawyer Advocate Sylvester Hashiti, said he was
being wrongly charged adding that a vice chancellor was not responsible for the
award of degrees.
However, in his ruling, the acting chief magistrate Mr
Munamato Mutevedzi said Nyagura had a case to answer.
“The State is not alleging that the accused conferred the
degree in person to Grace Mugabe. Instead the allegation is that the accused
facilitated the conferment of the degree to Grace Mugabe,” he said. Herald
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