ZANU PF Gokwe-Nembudziya MP Justice Mayor Wadyajena, whose $1 500 maintenance order was last month quashed by the High Court, yesterday appeared at the Civil Magistrates’ Court where a “proper assessment of the maintenance case” was supposed to be made according to the High Court’s ruling.
CHARLES LAITON SENIOR COURT REPORTER
High Court judges of appeal Justices Amie Tsanga and Alphias Chitakunye set aside the order granted by the Magistrates’ Court and referred the matter back to the lower court for a proper determination.
However, the matter could not be heard yesterday and was postponed indefinitely by magistrate Tafadzwa Muvhami, because the magistrate who dealt with the initial maintenance claim was not available.
The judges further said a perusal of the court record showed that both parties, Wadyajena and his former lover Wadzanai Mudare, presented their expenses claims on their 10-year-old daughter before a magistrate by simply basing on speculations hence the order by the magistrate would not stand.
In October last year, Wadyajena was summoned to court to defend an $11 600 maintenance claim filed by his former girlfriend. Mudare submitted before the magistrate that Wadyajena was a man of means who owned eight top-of-the-range vehicles, a firm and was resident in Borrowdale Brooke which was a sign that he could afford to pay.
She further said the MP could afford to pay the claimed amount since he operated a fleet of over 100 trucks under “Mayor Logistics”.
Wadyajena, however, offered to pay $200 per month arguing he earned $2 500 per month and that the claim by Mudare was “unfavourable and unsustainable”, an assertion dismissed by the court which ordered him to pay $1 500 then.
