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Qiliho: The former ACP Brown has case to answer when he is back in Fiji

1/2/2016

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Fiji all over: Zimbabwe's chief prosecutor charged over
Mugabe 'bomb plot'

Zimbabwe's chief prosecutor has been charged with obstructing the course of justice after allegedly dropping charges against people accused of plotting to bomb the president's dairy.

Four army officers also appeared at the magistrates court in the capital Harare charged with treason.

Attorney General Johannes Tomana denies the charges. He was brought to court in the back of a police pick-up truck.

The milk production plant is run by President Robert Mugabe's wife, Grace.

The prosecutor told the court that the four army officers were allegedly caught with firearms and sought to get bombs designed to blow up the dairy, reports the BBC's Brian Hungwe from the capital, Harare.

Our correspondent adds that the court was told the four had formed a political party called Zimbabwe People Front and had set up a military training camp.

Mr Tomana is accused of dropping charges against two of the four army officers.
 
Mr Mugabe has been in power since 1980.

The ruling Zanu-PF party has been hit by factionalism as rivals disagree on who will succeed 91-year-old Mr Mugabe.

One faction of the ruling party is backing Grace Mugabe to take over from her husband while another camp is backing Deputy President Emmerson Mnangagwa. Source: BBC World News

2 Comments
Dekho
2/2/2016 10:50:07 pm

Who else has a " case to answer " since the unlawful takeover of the government of Fiji in 2006 and the human rights abuses that followed?

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Rajend Naidu
3/2/2016 04:39:03 am

Editor,
We read in Press Gazette ( Journalism Today ) Feb 2 that Journalist Nicky Hager was working in Auckland when the police raided his Wellington home.
Eight weeks earlier in the run up to the general elections in Sept 2014 Hager, NZ's best known investigative journalist had published a book " Dirty Politics ", that rocked the political establishment. It revealed that the PM John Key and his officials were secretly colluding with bloggers in a huge dirty tricks programme, smearing and discrediting political opponents and critics of the governing National Party.
The book provoked a furore that dominated the news for weeks and led to the resignation of the prime minister's longest serving official and the justice minister.
For Hager, the police's actions were symptomatic of a growing intolerance from governments worldwide towards whistleblowers and a tendency to attack and criminalise legitimate media activity.
Fijileaks and Fiji politics followers are well acquainted with that tendency.
( read full article ' NZ journalist raided by police : " if you contact a source by phone you're a bloody idiot these days ").
Sincerely,
Rajend Naidu

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