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  Mujuru corruption report still confined to the State Media

As a cloud of suspense lay hanging over Harare Thursday, ZimEye was reliably told a story circulating that Police Commissioner Augustine Chihuri has resigned is not true.
The rumour claimed that Chihuri resigned in protest after refusing to arrest Robert Mugabe’s powerful default successor Vice President Joice Mujuru.
Police spokesperson Charity Charamba who is albeit on study leave, said Mr Chihuri is carrying about his normal duties and there is no iota of truth that he resigned at any time.
“I spoke to him today, he is the office. You can even phone and talk to him”, she said.
She added that the people peddling the rumour must have an agenda behind them.
Analysts have however questioned that despite the pile of news articles alleging deep seated corruption by Mrs Mujuru, she is still to be interrogated. When asked why they haven’t arrested Mujuru,  Ass’ Commissioner Charamba she replied  “We are yet to get the report. ”
The whole capital Harare was tense in the security echelons of power Thursday. Sources say the whole army,  police are in a fix at the moment “to please or not to please” Grace Mugabe and her Mnangagwa camp who have called for Robert Mugabe’s powerful default successor the VP’s arrest and ouster from leadership.  One source said the whole army, police and the rest of the security hierarchy sympathise with Mujuru.

Meanwhile the Attorney General Johannes Tomana,  has on record said ordering the Police Commissioner-General to investigate VP Mujuru when a police report had not been made against her, would actually aide the VP’s defence in the event that she were to appear before the courts of law.
Urging those accusing the VP of corruption to make a formal police report, Mr Tomana said his office would only order an investigation when police fail to take appropriate action on the report.
 
“If we get a docket and there is evidence of a crime we will prosecute, but we cannot invoke the provision when a police report has not been made. That will actually arm the accused’s defence, as they will then argue that the system is prejudiced against them since due process would not have been followed. It will actually kill a case.
“The police service is a constitutional institution whose sole mandate is to carry out investigations without interference. The section that provides for giving that instruction envisages a scenario where the domestic mechanisms have failed.
“If a complaint is put through all the police structures, that will help us to see that that system has failed, especially if we see that there is actually a case. Because I’m now invoking a constitutional provision, it’s no longer supposed to be taken lightly because if he (Commissioner-General) does not respond, the President will have to do something. It’s got consequences and it’s not meant to be used in the understanding that transforms us into an alternative to reporting.

“Has anyone who knows anything about the VP case reported the matter to police? They need to do that as a condition precedent to us intervening,” Mr Tomana said.
Meanwhile, speaking on the sidelines, police director of legal services, Senior Assistant Commissioner Benjamin Mhiripiri said police would only investigate allegations against the VP after a formal report has been made.