Gomwe trial continues

SUSPENDED Zanu PF Harare youth chair Godwin Gomwe’s $46 000 extortion trial continued yesterday with a State witness, Peter Dzama, conceding under cross-examination that Glen Norah Housing Co-operation Consortium was a legal nullity and that the cash requests by the youth leader were unlawful.

Dzama, who was giving evidence before trial magistrate Tendai Mahwe, made the concession during cross-examination following a barrage of questions from Gomwe’s lawyer Advocate Thembinkosi Magwaliba.

“The consortium is not recognised at law as the principal Act on co-operatives does not recognise them,” Dzama said.

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