HARARE, Zimbabwe — Yadah Hotel, founded by Prophetic Healing and Deliverance Ministries leader Walter Magaya, has been acquitted of charges of possessing unregistered medicines after a court ruled that prosecutors failed to link the drugs to the hotel.
The hotel, represented in court by Donald Makuvaza, faced two counts of violating the Medicines and Allied Substances Control Act over the alleged possession of unregistered medicines and complementary medicines.
Through lawyer Malvern Mapako of Rubaya and Chatambudza Legal Practitioners, Yadah denied the charges and applied for discharge at the close of the prosecution’s case, arguing that no evidence linked the hotel to the medicines.
The court upheld the application, finding that prosecutors had failed to establish the necessary connection between the hotel and the medicines allegedly recovered from one of its rooms.
Prosecutors alleged that detectives from the Criminal Investigations Department headquarters in Harare received information on Nov. 1, 2025, that unregistered medicines and unapproved complementary medicines were being kept at Yadah Hotel in Waterfalls.
Detectives went to the hotel that day and conducted a room-to-room search.
Police allegedly discovered various medicines and complementary medicines in one room, but no occupant was present at the time of the search.
The items included cotrimoxazole and fluconazole tablets, Liposomal Liquid Glutathione, Liver Care Detox Complementary Natural Medicine and High Purity Methane Inflammation Opti-MSM Methylsulfonylmethane, according to the prosecution.
Investigators also allegedly recovered compounded prescription weekly forms indicating that medicines had been dispensed and administered to a person identified as Happiness Mavindire in the room.
However, the court found that the prosecution had failed to establish that the medicines belonged to Yadah Hotel, noting evidence that they had previously belonged to other people.
The court also found that prosecutors had not presented evidence from Zimbabwe’s medicines regulator establishing that the medicines in question were unregistered.
