BY DESMOND CHINGARANDE
The person the police claim to be non-existent, forming the basis for the arrest of MDC Alliance lawyer, Advocate Thabani Mpofu, has been previously interviewed by the same police and gave 15 samples of his signature, the court heard yesterday.
Mpofu appeared in court yesterday charged with forging an affidavit of “a non-existent” Simbarashe Zuze in a court case challenging the appointment of Prosecutor-General Kumbirai Hodzi last year.
But Mtetwa said Mpofu would not abscond court because allegations against him were weak and that the LSZ, the professional body for local lawyers, had already cleared him of any wrongdoing.
Samukange and Venturas Legal Practitioners engaged Mpofu, as an advocate, to argue the case on their behalf.
Addressing journalists on the sidelines of the court proceedings, MDC Alliance leader Nelson Chamisa said the Zanu PF government was running scared of the people and it was time to boot President Emmerson Mnangagwa out of power.
