A 25-year-old Man from Chitungwiza who pleaded guilty and was convicted of criminal insult after retweeting a message from a ghost account named after Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec)chairperson Justice Priscilla Chigumba has changed his plea from guilty to not guilty.
Night Tawona Shadaya’s sentence which was scheduled for yesterday failed to take off the ground when Shadaya changed goal posts claiming that he was under duress when he made his initial plea.
When Shadaya was convicted he engaged Zimbabwe Lawyers for Human Rights lawyers who filed a notice before the court saying he was pressured to plead guilty.
Shadaya’s lawyers told the court that they perused Shadaya’s docket plea, but could not find details of whether the Twitter account in the name of Chigumba was fake or real.
MagistrateRumbidzai Mugwagwa postponed the matter to October 16.
The State did not oppose the postponement of the sentencing of Shadaya.
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