A HARARE transport operator, Ephraim Mujawo, has approached
the High Court seeking release of his seven 30-tonne trucks which were
impounded by police last month after being suspected to have been stolen.
Mujawo claimed that the State withdrew the case on January
21 for lack of evidence, but police have refused to release the vehicles.
In his urgent chamber application to the High Court, Mujawo
cited one Detective Sergeant Muuya and Mukura, officer-in-charge Vehicle Theft
Squad Nzirawa, Police Commissioner-General Godwin Matanga and Home Affairs
minister Kazembe Kazembe.
Mujawo, through his lawyer David Ngwerume, said the police
had no legal basis to continue holding onto his trucks after failing to prove
that they were stolen property.
He added that the continued seizure of the trucks was
financially bleeding his company. He claims that after failing to prove the
alleged theft, police on January 14 advised that they would continue holding
onto the vehicles.
The matter was initially handled by Harare magistrate
Barbara Mateko under case number CRB03/20 before the State withdrew the charges
before plea, but police refused to release the trucks, according to Mujawo’s
lawyer.
The police are yet to respond to the application. Newsday
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