FIVE suspended Zimbabwe Law Officers’ Association (Ziloa) members have given the Public Service Commission (PSC) until tomorrow (Friday) to lift their suspension. The five were suspended early this month.
REPORT BY FELUNA NLEYA STAFF REPORTER
According to a letter by their lawyer Beatrice Mtetwa, the legal battle between PSC and the prosecutors — Dereck Charamba, Leopold Mudisi, Patrobs Dube, Mehluli Tshuma and Musekiwa Mbanje Mtetwa — has already started.
“Our clients obviously have a reasonable expectation that the process be concluded within a reasonable period of time and if we do not hear from yourselves and the commission by the 25 of January, please be advised that we have instructions to approach the courts for appropriate relief,” reads part of Mtetwa’s letter to PSC.
“It appears to us that there is a deliberate and orchestrated campaign to frustrate our clients through these endless suspensions . . . In our respectful view, it is unreasonable to have the disciplinary hearing a year after our clients had stopped working and even more unreasonable to have no decision some three months after the hearing.”
The five were first suspended in November 2011 over allegations of defiance, misconduct and inciting other employees to stage an illegal work boycott. Their prosecuting certificates were subsequently withdrawn by the Attorney-General Johannes Tomana.