The officer Commanding Police in Masvingo, Senior Assistant Commissioner Taonei Nyazema has been served with papers to appear at the High Court for contempt of court.
The papers were served on him this week. According to documents in the hands of The Mirror, Nyazema is accused of failing to evict Zivanai Huruva from Tony Renato Sarpo’s farm in Chiredzi which he allegeldy invaded in February 2019.
After the invasion, Sarpo a Zimbabwean of Italian origin was on March 8, 2019 granted a spoliation order by the High Court in Harare but Huruva refused to honour the order.
On September 9 2020, Sarpo through his lawyers Mutamangira and Associates approached the same court with an urgent chamber application for contempt of court and committal with Huruva and Nyazema being cited as the first and second respondents respectively.
Sarpo obtained an order for spoliation against Huruva under case number HC1775/19 granted by Justice Matanda Moyo.
It is alleged Huruva returned to the farm on August 27, 2020 with the help of Police officers and powerful politicians in Masvingo Province. He took occupation of one of the houses at the farm. This happened despite the availability of a court order barring him from coming within a radius of 500metres of the farm.
“The court order restored peaceful and undisturbed
possession of the farm to me and banned the first respondent and his operatives
from coming within 500 metres of the boundaries of the farm. The first
respondent has wantonly and brazenly disregarded the court order by Justice
Matanda-Moyo notwithstanding its clear and unequivocal terms in that on August
27 2020 he came back to the farm and forcibly evicted one of my employees from
his house and threw his belongings out so that the first respondent could take
occupation. He further gained forcible entry into the main farm house” reads
part of the application. Masvingo Mirror
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