DESTINY for Afrika Network (DANet) leader Obadiah Musindo and his wife Blantina Mpofu have been issued with summons for imprisonment of debt after defying a High Court judgment ordering them to pay over $6 000 to a Harare woman they owe in rentals.
Report by Phillip Chidavaenzi
The summons, dated June 13 2013, said Musindo and Mpofu should pay the plaintiff Pedzisai Mushekwi $3 000 for unpaid rentals stretching from March 1, 2011 to June 2011 plus interest, $2 006 outstanding Zesa electricity bill as well as penalties levied by the power utility and $1 479 damages for repairs to the property they rented in Ruwa.
“You, the defendants, are called upon to pay the plaintiff the sum of $6 485, with interest thereon at the rate of (5) five percent per annum from the 19th October 2011 to the date of payment. You are required to pay this sum by virtue of a judgment obtained against you in the High Court at Harare on the 19th October 2011 in Case No. 7444/11, under which you were ordered to pay jointly and severally. . . ” reads the summons in part.
In the judgment, passed in default by Justice Lavender Makoni, Musindo and Mpofu were also ordered to pay the costs of the suits, failure of which he would be imprisoned for three months.
According to the court papers (Case number HC7444/11) on November 18 2011, the deputy sheriff tried to attach some property at the defendants’ residence in Pomona, but was advised that they had moved out two months earlier.
On March 5 2012, the deputy sheriff proceeded to attach a Volvo 560-2, OT (Registration number ACJ4719), which was being driven by Mpofu, at Musindo’s business premises, but later released it after being advised that it belonged to a third party.
