Source: Charumbira ‘sex attack’ victim claims victimisation –Newsday Zimbabwe
CHIEFS’ Council president Fortune Charumbira’s alleged sexual assault victim has written a letter of complaint against the police for failing to act on her earlier report and filed another charge of victimisation.
Charumbira, who is also president of the Pan-African Parliament (Pap), reportedly solicited a kiss from the victim, who spurned his advances after he had invited her for lunch at a top hotel in Harare.
The married teacher based in Masvingo, claims she was reportedly sexually abused in Harare while on her way to Mazowe on school business on March 31 this year.
Charumbira has, however, dismissed the sexual assault allegations as a smear campaign, and instead threatened to sue the complainant for defamation.
The victim, who cannot be named for ethical reasons, reported the matter at Masvingo Central Police Station under RRB 5457646 in April this year, but Charumbira has reportedly not yet been arrested or questioned by the police over the matter.
In a letter dated June 5, 2023, addressed to an officer commanding Masvingo province, David Mahoya, the victim said she had also reported Charumbira for threatening violence against her.
“On April 18, 2023, I made a police report of threats of violence as defined in Section 186(1)(b) of the Criminal Law [Codification and Reform] Act [Chapter 09:23] alternatively contravening section 184(1)(e) of the Criminal Law [Codification and Reform] Act [Chapter 09:23],” the woman wrote.
“The accused person is (Chief) Fortune Charumbira currently the Zimbabwean president of the Chiefs Council, the Pan Africanist Parliament (PAP) pesident. Initially, I had filed a report against the accused person for contravening section 67(1)(a)(1) refers ZRP Masvingo Central CR56-58/04/23.”
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