CONTROVERSIAL businessman Frank Buyanga, who recently kidnapped his child has this week fled to South Africa along with the minor son, Zim Morning Post has learnt.
This act is in complete negation of the law and violation of an Interim order of High Court in case hc5011/19 where Buyanga was ordered not to remove the minor child from Zimbabwe.
Buyanga kidnapped the child in Waterfalls last week after a long-drawn custody battle pitting him and ex-girlfriend Chantelle Muteswa.
The couple was granted a joint custody by High Court judge Justice Happious Zhou, but the ruling was to be suspended after Muteswa appealed to the Supreme Court.
After Buyanga kidnapped their son,Muteswa filed a police report and Buyanga was obliged to answer to kidnapping and attempted murder charges on Thursday,but he skipped the border along with the child.
This communication was made by his lawyer Wilson Manase on Wednesday in a letter written to the Registrar of the High Court.
“We write to inform you that after the hearing on Monday at 2.30, we consulted our client who is now out of this Honorable Court’s jurisdiction as he is out of the country where he travelled on a business trip with the child.
“This application has therefore been overtaken by events,” wrote Manase.
“We believe while the horse has bolted,this application becomes irrelevant as far as it’s intents are concerned,” he added.
Buyanga’s lawyers insist that the joint custody order subsists since their client was not properly served with papers suggesing otherwise.
“The purported appeal by the applicant against Zhou’s judgement lapsed as it was not properly served to the first respondent.
“In this regard making it a nullity,” submitted Manase.
Meanwhile, last week Muteswa wrote to police commissioner general Godwin Matanga and Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption chairperson Loice Matanda-Moyo seeking clarity on the status of investigations regarding the kidnapping and attempted murder matters.
She accused Buyanga of interfering with police investigations and obstructing justice.
On Wednesday, Buyanga made counter-allegations and put forward that some of Muteswa’s powerful associates were in touch with Justice Manzunzu- (who is scheduled to preside over the case o Thursday).
He registered his concerns through a letter addressed to the secretary of the Judicial Services Commission.
In the correspondence, he was name dropping but did not attach evidence to substantiate his claims.
He insisted that he had been furnished with evidence by his “intelligence infrastructure in Zimbabwe”.
