Kereke caught up in Parliament storm

JUSTICE minister Ziyambi Ziyambi was yesterday grilled in the National Assembly by Norton MP Temba Mliswa over reports that incarcerated former Bikita West legislator Munyaradzi Kereke was enjoying conjugal rights in prison resulting in him impregnating his wife.

Kereke was slapped with a 14-year jail term for raping a minor, and Mliswa alleged that the Justice minister assisted in according Kereke the right to enjoy conjugal rights in prison

“Can Ziyambi explain government policy on incarcerated prisoners and whether government has shifted its policy on prison conjugal rights because Kereke is alleged to have impregnated his wife in prison and you (Ziyambi) are also alleged to have facilitated that,” Mliswa said while questioning Ziyambi.

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