via Baba Jukwa: UZ refuses to issue student new identify card 30 July 2014 by Feluna Nleya
THE University of Zimbabwe (UZ) is allegedly refusing to issue a new student identify card to a student, recently implicated in the Baba Jukwa case, it has emerged.
Romeo Musemburi, a third-year economics student is facing charges of attempting to subvert a constitutional government, said his identify card got lost at the time of his arrest.
He was arrested on June 30 for allegedly authoring a subversive statement and posting it to the phantom Facebook character’s Gmail account.
According to his lawyer Tonderai Bhatasara, the university appeared reluctant to provide Musemburi with a replacement card to enable him to fully access academic resources and other services.
Bhatasara said his client was being sent from one office to another with one of the officials at the university saying his issue was “too big for him”.
“We are instructed as we hereby do to demand that our client be issued with a student ID card by end of business on Friday 25 July 2014,” Bhatasara said in his letter to the registrar.
“If demand is not met, we will file an urgent chamber application at Court to protect the interests of our client.”
“Our client is attending winter school at the moment, he has pending assignments and requires to access the library in order to adequately prepare in his studies. He is unable to access the library as he has no student ID.”
Bhatasara said his client had approached officials in his department to have the student ID replaced, but was referred to another faculty.
“On Monday 21 our client was referred to the records office where he was then advised by the head of the Records Office that his case was published in the newspaper so he has to be cleared by a (Jonathan) Lieto,” he said. “So he attended at the office of the Acting Deputy Registrar Academic, Lieto. He did not see Lieto, but was advised by his office that his case was in the newspaper so he has to wait until the case is finished.”
When NewsDay tried to contact him for comment, the registrar was said to be in a meeting while Lieto was out of the office.
Musemburi is out of custody on $100 bail.
COMMENTS
Fix the economy, unemployment, lawlessness & everything else that was promised to the electorate. Then you won’t have to worry about what people are posting on social media. Is that so hard to understand? Never mind. ZANU does not listen to anyone.
Is the UZ still an independent learning institution like it was during Kamba’s time ? This case makes me recall the MDC youth leader in the Glen View 29 case – the UZ is now like a political commissar. Most of the Zanu leaders earned their degrees while in prison. Now the UZ punishes u for just speaking against govt, even when a case is still in court ?????
Is baba jukwa on the nikuv roll or is he just the man on the moon ?
Izvo hazvinei nezanu madofo apa uz ava kurasika ipai mwana card afunde. Imbofunga mwana akati ndoda kuvata pakati pamai nababa zvinga konesa chii husiku hwese kkkkk regai ndiseke zvangu
UZ is managed by CIO’s and the work on instructions from Bonyongwe. As far as they are concerned, everyone is guilty of hating Mugabe until you are proven innocent by publicly singing their song and dancing kongonya!
You know what fascinates me? ZPF are in a stew over someone called baba Jukwa telling some of its dirty secrets but doesn’t understand that the Lord Himself is watching. God says that NO sin will be left uncovered. What do those simple words of earning mean to all those Ph’d men and women in control? They should be really afraid of God not BJ. It is NOT BJ that is going to judge them but a righteous and angry God who will NOT tolerate the evil of this regime forever. When their cup of evil is full the mighty sword of God will fall. And so, ZPF, instead of spending sleepless nights in Harare and millions of dollars trying to track whoever this person is you should get on your knees and REPENT! It is cheaper and safer for you all! Be warned. it is a terrible thing for a sinner to fall into the hands of an angry God and that should shake us all up!