The State has announced that it intends to withdraw charges against Viva Zimbabwe leader William Mutumanje popularly known as Acie Lumumba.
This was announced by the National Prosecuting Authority in a Constitutional Court hearing where Lumumba was challenging the constitutionality of Section 32 subsection ( 2) b of the Criminal Law Codification and Reform Act chapter 9:23 which deals with the charge of undermining the authority of the president.
Lumumba was arrested after he insulted President Robert Mugabe using the f-word during the launch of his party Viva Zimbabwe in June 2016. Lumumba also threatened that if anything happened to him in retaliation, Mugabe’s children would also be “touched” in the future.
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