EVANS Kamombo, a top Zanu PF official, who was disqualified from standing as the party’s parliamentary candidate for Nyanga North constituency and sentenced to nine years in jail for theft, has had his conviction quashed by the High Court.
Kamombo was being acccused of stealing fertiliser worth
US$40 075 belonging to Zimbabwe’s ambassador to Tanzania Anselem Sanyatwe.
A High Court judge yesterday dismissed the matter after the
chief witness, Nyanga North MP Chido Sanyatwe failed to attend court to testify
against him. It also emerged that Kamombo was vying for a parliamentary seat
held by the ambassador’s wife, a key witness in the matter.
Kamombo was in March slapped with a nine-year jail term by
Mutare magistrate Richard Ramaboea, with two years of his sentence set aside on
condition that he pays restitution.
The judge ruled that the complainant's wife, Chido, should
have testified.
“We appealed against conviction and sentence, the
conviction was set aside and the sentence was quashed, he is now free after
spending some weeks in prison,” Kamombo’s lawyer said. Newsday
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