The Office of the President and Cabinet have written to the lawyers who ordered the attachment of property belonging to Didymus Mutasa telling them that they cannot attach the Range Rover Sport as it belongs to the state. The top of the range car is valued at $75 000 and was seized by the Sheriff of the High Court after Mutasa failed to pay a debt of $ 26 900 in legal fees.
Mutasa also filed another application at the court to recover his property. He stated:
The Range Rover vehicle is second applicant’s ministerial issue. It is still registered in the name of the State although I have an option to purchase it. It is therefore State property which cannot be attached or executed upon, let alone removed. I have not yet been given the go ahead to purchase it
Property belonging to the state cannot be attached due to the State Liabilities Act. Part of the Act reads:
Subject to this section, no execution or attachment or process in the nature thereof shall be issued against the defendant or respondent in any action or proceedings referred to in section two or against any property of the State, but the nominal defendant or respondent may cause to be paid out of the Consolidated Revenue Fund such sum of money as may, by a judgment or order of the court, be awarded to the plaintiff, the applicant or the petitioner, as the case may be.
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