So whatever the Government of Zimbabwe does, nobody accepts that it is doing anything right. It is blamed everywhere and I think His Excellency and his Cabinet should be bold enough to deal with issues and be frank with everybody that we are not going to relent. A crime should be taken to court, people should be arrested and it does not matter what type of a person he is.
There is a question of all these things like murder. I am on record speaking in this House sometime when an Hon. Member, a highly respected lawyer supported the removal of death sentence in the Constitution which was raised by an Hon. Sen. T. Makone. I am on record to say no, if we do that it is like we are rewarding murderers. There had been murderers in Murehwa recently and also in Mvuma, where somebody takes his lovely wife and the wife says we are going to the bush to look for something, and yet somebody wants to go and harvest a tongue from his wife and others. That person is arrested and he goes to court. You find people calling themselves lawyers and they want to go and represent that person and say no, you cannot kill him and you cannot arrest him. But, it is something which is clear that somebody murdered somebody.
To me, if I had the power – unfortunately I do not have and I am sure there are lawyers who are amongst us, I would say anyone who represents a murderer in court should be charged with defeating the course of justice because somebody has killed someone and you are saying no he has not killed when it is clear that he has murdered someone. So you are also an accomplice in that murder because of a USD, Rand and Pound and you want to go and represent a criminal.
Hon. President of Senate and Hon. Senators gathered here, let me repeat this. I am saying a lawyer who goes to court and represents a clear murderer should be charged with criminal case of defeating the course of justice because we are saying these murder cases should be taken to court and you say no, give him bail; you say a lot of things and things which do not work. We cannot have lawyers surviving on getting money they got through defeating the course of justice.
I want to repeat this – if someone has murdered somebody and it is clear – for example in Mvuma, you rape a pregnant woman and after that you shoot her and conceal all the statements and you are caught. The danger is that we make a mistake by thinking that when a properly investigated case and a murderer has been arrested, you say we cannot hang people. That person will not be a person by that time. It is a beast. Why do you want to keep the beast and feeding the beast? During that action, the person had temporarily ceased to be a person, he would have become an animal. So a beast cannot share the same home with human beings – it is dangerous.
I can talk and talk about this but I am still convinced that murderers should be hanged without any delay. With this debate, I wanted to say His Excellency is a star; he will always get my prayers that he does better. I also want to confess one thing also. Had it not been for the decisive action of the President and his Cabinet, I would have been dead. When the Vice President, Hon. Chiwenga came to present a document on the status of the country in terms of COVID, that is the time I became very convinced that I needed to be vaccinated. Therefore, when I got COVID on the 28th July, I was protected by the vaccine, hence I survived. I thank you.
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