JUSTICE IN ZIMBABWE 27 ____________________________________________________________________ Wayne Bvudzijena, the police spokesperson, on Thursday refused to say why the police have not handed over to the Attorney General (AG)’s Office a docket on Joseph Mwale of the CIO and Tom Kainos ‘Kitsiyatota’ Zimunya, a war veteran, the alleged murderers of two MDC activists in the June 2000 parliamentary election campaign. Bvudzijena said: ‘Even if I was not on leave, I was not going to give you a comment.’ Bharat Patel, the deputy Attorney General, yesterday said he had told the police he was still waiting for the docket more than two years after the incident happened. Patel said the director of public prosecutions in the AG’s Office on Wednesday wrote to the senior staff officer responsible for crime at the Police General Headquarters asking him to send the docket his office. Patel said: ‘I have checked with the director of public prosecutions who advised me that he had written to the senior staff officer responsible for crime to hand over the docket to the AG’s Office.’ In May, Patel said the AG’s Office had written to ask the police for the docket because they wanted to study it before taking action. But more than a month has passed without police action.” 37 In September 2002 the same local newspaper reported that the police spokesperson, Wayne Bvudzijena had refused to say why the police are refusing to hand over the docket on Mwale and Zimunya to the Attorney-General’s office. The report said that Mr Patel, the deputy Attorney-General, said the police are yet to respond to request from the Attorney-General’s office for the docket, four months after the request. The report added that the docket was said to be at the Police General Headquarters after it was delivered there by the police in Manicaland early in 2002.38 There have been reports that following the presidential elections Joseph Mwale has been involved in violence against the MDC in the Chimanimani area where he is based. For example, in April 2002 this report appeared a local newspaper: “CIO officer spearheads Chimanimani terror Joseph Mwale, a Central Intelligence Officer accused of killing MDC activists Tichaona Chiminya and Talent Mabika in Buhera during the June 2000 parliamentary elections campaign, is reportedly spearheading retributions on MDC supporters in Chimanimani