The former president will have to wait for a least a month before he will know whether or not his application to force the NPA’s advocate, Billy Downer SC, out of his corruption trial is successful.
Mpofu said that the court submission by Trengove was a distortion of their case against Downer and the NPA. He said their case was clear that they wanted a recusal and the facts spoke for themselves. He pleaded with the court to dismiss the claims.
"Like Caesar’s wife, the prosecutor must be above any trace of suspicion, not even wrongdoing, suspicion, as the minister of the truth brings a special duty to see that the case emerges in court,“ Mpofu said while quoting from case laws where a prosecutor was kicked out of a case by a court.
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