Dexter Nduna who is the MP for Chegutu West has approached the High Court seeking to stop the criminal proceeding against him in a case where he is accused of unlawfully discharging a firearm in public and engaging in acts of violence. Nduna is accusing the magistrate of denying him access to legal representation.
Nduna is jointly charged with Munyaradzi Simango (30) and Takemore Maphosa (18) on public violence charges and unlawful discharge of a firearm during the Zanu-PF primary elections in May 2018.
Through his lawyers Chambati Mataka and Makonese, Nduna is seeking a temporary stay of the criminal proceedings.
The urgent application reads:
The second respondent is honourable Judith Taruvinga cited herein in her official capacity as the presiding magistrate in the matter between myself and the State under Criminal Record Book (CRB) Number CHG647-76/18
This is an application in which I am seeking on an urgent basis a temporary stay of criminal proceedings at Chegutu Magistrate Court. There can be no basis in the era of the modern constitutional jurisprudence for a court of law to deny an accused person legal representation.
The applicants herein were denied the right to fair trial in terms of the precincts of the constitutional provision which my legal counsel shall amplify in heads of argument
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