News:Ex-police officers sue Chihuri
<vote /> Three former police officers from Fairbridge Police Station in Bulawayo who were fired in October 2009 for allegedly smuggling potatoes and 600 sachets of cane spirits while deployed at the Zimbabwe-Zambia Border Post, have sued Commissioner-General Augustine Chihuri for unfair dismissal.
Bulawayo High Court judge, Justice Maxwell Takuva in June 2015 ordered their reinstatement without loss of benefits and pay, but the police force defied the order.
The sachets that they are alleged to have stolen were later found to belong to Edith Mkombwe and the potatoes belonged to Inspector Mzenda who had sent them to collect them from the border.
Despite the court ruling in their favour, the police force refused to reinstate them. Chihuri in his affidavit said that,
"Applicants were intercepted by Zimbabwe Revenue Authority officials and found in possession of undeclared goods, hence, during the police disciplinary trial they were found guilty."
He also argued that their acquittal in the criminal proceedings did not warrant that the disciplinary proceedings’ verdict should be the same.
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