By Mary Taruvinga HOME Affairs Minister Kazembe Kazembe has refused to pay $900 000 in damages to a Kwekwe man who was shot five times in the abdomen by police officers last year in February while gambling. The complainant, Tinashe Deshe later sued Kazembe and Police Commissioner General Godwin Matanga arguing the shooting was unjustified. However, the two top officials in their defence argued Deshe, who was shot while gambling, deserved the treatment he received as he had resisted arrest and threatened police officers with a machete. “The plaintiff was gambling. He had a machete and he advanced towards the police officers thereby threatening them. The shooting was not neglect but necessary in the circumstances,” reads their response filed through a lawyer.