HARARE (ZimEye) – Zimbabwe Peace Project director Jestina Mukoko who was kidnapped and jailed last year is claiming US$222 000 compensation from government for alleged mistreatment while in detention.

In her claim filed at the High Court on Monday, Mukoko listed the then
Ministry of State Security, Lands, Land Reform and Resettlement and its Minister Didymus Mutasa in his individual capacity.

Co-Ministers of Home Affairs Ministers, Kembo Mohadi and Giles Mutsekwa, Defence Minister Emmerson Mnangagwa, Commissioner General of Police Augustine Chihuri, Chief Superintendent Magwenzi, Attorney General Mr Johannes Tomana and Brigadier General Asher Tapfumaneyi were also cited as respondents.

Mukoko’s lawyer Beatrice Mtetwa, filed the claim for damages in the sum of US$222 000 with interest at the prescribed legal rate of interest from the date of service of the summons to date of payment plus costs of suit.

In the claim, Mukoko also accused Mr Tomana of failing to discharge his obligations in terms of the Constitution to order the arrest and prosecution of her alleged kidnappers.

Mukoko’s trial has been suspended pending her application at the Supreme Court seeking a determination on several of her constitutional rights, which she claims were violated as a result of alleged “abduction, torture and detention.”

Last month the full bench of the Supreme Court heard Mukoko’s constitutional application and reserved judgment to a later date.
(ZimEye, Zimbabwe)

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