HARARE - A five-year-old boy is suing ministers and heads of security forces for US$1,6 million for torture, malicious prosecution, abduction and unlawful detention.Nigel Mutemagau is suing Justice and Legal Affairs minister Patrick Chinamasa, Kembo Mohadi, the minister of Home Affairs, Giles Mutsekwa, the ex-Home Affairs ministers, Didymus Mutasa, ex-State Security, and Police Commissioner-General Augustine Chihuri, Central Intelligence Organisation director-general Retired Major-General Happyton Bonyongwe, Prisons Commissioner Retired Major-General Paradzai Zimondi and several senior police officers and State security agents for the anguish he suffered.
Nigel, then only two years old, was abducted along with his political activist parents in October 2008. The toddler was beaten in front of his mother as part of the State’s attempt to force confessions from her. The small boy spent 124 days in a filthy disease-prone cell before he was released into the care of MDC officials. His mother was bailed much later.
On Monday judge president George Chiweshe posted a hearing into the suit to September 13, ostensibly because the ministers’ lawyer, Advocate Farai Mutamangira, was held up somewhere else. Lawyer Charles Kwaramba appeared for Nigel.
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