It never rains but pours for jailed rapist and former Bikita West MP, Munyaradzi Kereke (Zanu PF), who has been taken to the High Court by Fairdrop Trading judicial manager, accusing him of interfering with his duties in trying to resuscitate the firm.
BY CHARLES LAITON
Kereke, who is serving a 10-year jail term for raping a relative’s daughter, is being sued in his capacity as a trustee and an authorised representative of the Rock Foundation Family Trust.
Judicial manager, Budhama Chikami also cited Afritrade, Falcon Security Services, Francis Hale and the Master of the High Court as respondents in the matter.
In his urgent application, Chikami accused Kereke of taking the law into his own hands, contrary to a subsisting court order, by interfering with the judicial manager’s operations through giving him instructions and invading the business premises without his authority.
“He (Kereke) continues, through agents of the third respondent (Falcon Security), to disrupt second applicant’s (Fairdrop Trading) operations and, in so doing, vitiates the process of judicial management of the second applicant sanctioned and overseen by this honourable court through the fifth respondent’s office,” Chikami said.
“Not only must the resort to self-help by the first respondent be deprecated and stopped, but this honourable court must ensure the integrity of its orders by intervening on an urgent basis to stop the disruptions caused by the first respondent’s actions.
“The second applicant’s operations and its recovery under judicial management have been put under severe risk by the first respondent’s actions and such actions ought to be stopped urgently.”
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According to Chikami, Fairdrop Investment was placed under judicial management in an attempt to alleviate its financial situation and bring it back to profitability, but was now in a fragile financial state, which was worsened by Kereke’s actions.
“Such hindrance to the second applicant’s operations will result in the efforts, I have invested in resuscitating the fortunes of the company, including the contract with Mangwiro and the negotiations with investors, being lost at the expense of all stakeholders including creditors, workers, patients and the fiscus,” the judicial manager said.
“Clearly there is actual harm of an irreparable nature being suffered by second applicant as a result of the first respondent’s actions as well as a very reasonable apprehension, based on the first respondent’s conduct, of future harm being perpetrated by him to the judicial management process.”
The matter is yet to be set down for hearing.
