In his resignation letter, former Prosecutor General (PG) Advocate Ray Goba apologised to President Mnangagwa for an incident he said happened in a foreign land and said he hopes to continue practising as a legal practitioner outside the public service.
Goba, who served as Namibia’s Deputy Prosecutor General, was convicted in a Namibian regional court in 2002 for driving a vehicle on a public road with excessive blood alcohol concentration in contravention of Section 140 (2) of the Road Traffic Ordinance 1967; failing to obey a road traffic sign in contravention of section of section 101 (1) of the Ordinance and attempting to defeat or obstruct the course of justice.
Goba was declared a prohibited immigrant while working in Namibia as Deputy Prosecutor-General and legal services director in 2011 in case number A118/2011. He allegedly travelled to Namibia when he was Zimbabwe’s PG without Cabinet authority, leading to his suspension and subsequent resignation. Said Goba:
I hope as my President you shall find something good that I did and pardon me for what had happened in that foreign land so I may continue my career in Zimbabwe outside public service. It would be unfair that I be doubly punished in my own country of birth and foreign land especially so many years after the offence which stemmed from nothing apart from a pull over on a public road. I sincerely regret the incident which has brought me nothing but pain since it occurred. It has been abused both as a measurement of success and a weapon of character.
More: Chronicle, Independent
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