via Jukwa: Cops want to visit Google in US 01 September 2014
SUNDAY Mail editor, Edmund Kudzayi, and his brother Phillip, who are facing terrorism charges over a shadowy Facebook page, on Monday applied to the courts to be removed from remand.
The two are being accused of running the Baba Jukwa Facebook page in an attempt to unseat a constitutionally elected government.
The duo’s legal counsel, Admire Rubaya, filed the application before Magistrate Milton Serima on Monday. Ruling on the application is expected on Tuesday.
In their application, the brothers are arguing that the state is playing “truant” with the courts depriving them of their liberty.
“It is my humble submission that the accused persons be removed from remand. It is very unreasonable for the accused persons to be kept on remand without any progress being done; justice delayed is justice denied,” Rubaya argued.
For the state, prosecutor Sharon Mashavira asked for the court’s indulgence arguing the state needed more time for investigations before setting up a trial date.
“There is a team that is going to leave the country for the US particularly for Google and Facebook, for purposes of extra-territorial investigations,” Mashavira told the magistrate.
“It has been barely two months since the accused persons have been on remand, contrary to the rule of practice that says the accused must have been on remand for a reasonable time (prior to trial).”
“The liberty of the accused persons cannot be trampled on basing on the rule of practice. We are not sure if ever the state will go to the US; it’s not a secret that relations between Zimbabwe and the US are next to zero.”
“Being on remand is no stroll in the park, therefore Your Worship, two months is a very long time and there is no justification given by the State that the accused persons should not stand trial.”
The Kudzayi brothers are facing charges of plotting insurgency, banditry, sabotage and terrorism against President Robert Mugabe’s government in the run-up to last year’s elections.
The state has charged the Kudzayi brothers with hatching a plan to unseat the government unconstitutionally. The brothers are accused of mobilising Zimbabweans to rise against the government.
The Baba Jukwa character was a pain in the neck for Mugabe’s Zanu PF by revealing insider information about what was happening within the party in the run-up to the election.
It also dropped nuggets of information about Zanu PF central committee and politburo meetings that captivated Zimbabweans ahead of the election controversially won by Mugabe.
Meanwhile, Edmund Kudzayi will stand trial on September 15 on a lesser charge of flouting the Firearms Act. The state says Edmund failed to store his ammunition properly thereby breaching the law.
Police detectives found 13 rounds of unsecured ammunition at his residence sometime in June this year, while part of the ammunition was recovered at his office.
COMMENTS
This is a zrp ploy for a free junket to shop in the u.s.a. glad that silicon valley won’t bother entertaining zpf who have dirty hands !!!!!!!
They should be glad if they manage to get a visa
Good luck zanu. Google don’t assist tyranical regimes. Zanu are murderers. Google should never get involved in natinal politics.
People with nothing to do.
A fish rots from the head. After that everything will be thrown away. Mugabe tainted all the arms of government, & due to sanctions how possibly can he expect Google/Facebook to comply? These guys do indeed take this internet or cyber generation for fools
So honestly ZRP think they can just show up at the Offices of FB and Google and demand access to their files? Here the president is cartooned and done all sorts in the public and noone, including the president himself cares…..its called freedom of speech and everyone is entitled to it. They don’t work like that here, never.
The chances if ZRP putting the arm twist on google are less than zero. These thugs are too dumb to understand how stupid they look.
Funniest thing I’ve read in a long time, just imagining these goons pitching up at US Immigration saying they have come to interrogate Google!!! What idiots and what an embarassment.
That’s advertising and exporting your level of repression. Is Mugabe not man enough to absorb insults? Is his government so shacky that it cannot defend its existence because elsewhere they have accepted that there will always be opposition to rulership and the rulers use persuasion of voters rather than repression to stay in power. These are new depths for ZANU, and talk about luring FDI to such a country.
excellent – arrest not only baba jukwa but also Mr Google and Mr face book too !!
Don’t be surprised if these ZRP goons think Google and Facebook are individuals, can you imagine “We’re here to interview Google , can you give us his address” and “we wish to extradite him to Zimbabalooba land of madness”
I challenged ZANU PF to produce voters roll with the credible valid ballot papers that proves that ZANU PF was dual elected.
Ah ha ha ha ha ha ha!!!!
This is wishful thinking on the part of ZRP and Zanu PF. It shows they are still in the dark ages. The world has moved on, sites like Baba Jukwa can be found in many countries and they cause no problems whatsover.
Google and Facebook will never entertain these weird requests, forget it, that will never happen.
ThMugabe said is is a waste of tax payers’ money because in the US what you are charging these guys is no offence.
I howled with laughter!
still howling
Interesting indeed. Watch this space.
To unseat constitutionally elected government ,kkkkkkkkk.ah hiyaa, it was elected by who ?
ZPF are the biggest buffons of all time, what a bunch of idiots!!