A student identified as Advance Musoki who appeared at a Bulawayo
magistrate, was on Monday convicted and fined $50 or face two weeks in
prison for demanding employment from President Robert Mugabe during the
university’s graduation ceremony last Friday.
Musoki who graduated with a Bachelor of Commerce Honours Degree in Risk
Management and Insurance from the National University of Science and
Technology (NUST), pleaded guilty to committing criminal nuisance in
contravention of Section 46 of the Criminal Law (Codification and
Reform).
According to All African reports, Prosecutors said
the 23-year-old student stood up during the graduation ceremony while
demanding for employment uttered the unpleasant words ‘mabasa ngaadzoke
President’ (Return to Work) three times, before he was caught and
pounced on by State security agencies before he was handed over to the
police.
However, during the court hearing Musoki’s lawyer Mehluli Dube from the
Zimbabwe Lawyers for Human Rights (ZLHR) pleaded with the court to give
Musoki a non-custodial sentence, which resulted to a fine of $50 or face
two weeks in prison.