Abductors: Mtetwa demands identities

Mukokos lawyer Beatrice Mtetwa asked the lawyers from Mutamangira and Associates who are representing the four ministers and the top police officers to reveal the names of the law enforcement agents who abducted her after the lawyers challenged her abduction report and justified it as an arrest.The ministers include former State Security Minister Didymus Mutasa, Defence Minister Emmerson Mnangagwa, Co-Home Affairs Minister Kembo Mohadi and former co-Home Affairs Minister Giles Mutsekwa.The police chiefs are Police Commissioner-General Augustine Chihuri, Chief Superintendent Peter Magwenzi and Brigadier-General Asher Walter Tapfumaneyi. Attorney General Johannes Tomana is also being sued by the pro-democracy campaigner.In their response to summons served on them by Mukoko in which she is demanding more than $200 000 in damages which she suffered as a result of her abduction, wrongful arrest and torture the lawyers deny the torture allegations and claim that her abduction was an act of arrest.The defendants aver that the plaintiff was arrested by law enforcement agents who had reasonable suspicion that she was involved in a conspiracy to recruit and engage in acts of terrorism, banditry and sabotage,The defendants deny that the plaintiff was tortured and put the plaintiff to strict proof of claim, read part of the lawyers response to the summons served on the ministers.But in responding to the denial by the ministers and the police chiefs Mtetwa is now demanding Abductors: Mtetwa demands identitiesthe identities of the law enforcements agents whom they claim arrested Mukoko. Mtetwa wants the ministers and the police bosses to furnish her with the full particulars of each law enforcement agent involved in the alleged arrest of the plaintiff (Mukoko), including the name, rank, address and organisation to which he/she is attached.The human rights lawyer also want the ministers and the police chiefs to mention the lawful holding facility where Mukoko was taken to after her alleged arrest.Mtetwa also wants the ministers and the senior police officers to disclose under whose custody was the human rights campaigner during the period 3 December, 2008 to 22 December 2008.Mukoko, the director of the Zimbabwe Peace Project (ZPP) was abducted by state security agents in December 2008 from her Norton residence and held incommunicado in secret detention centres until the end of December when she was produced at a police station and subsequently in court.She was accused of recruiting persons to commit terrorism and banditry, including the recruitment of insurgents to train in Botswana for an alleged armed uprising against President Robert Mugabes previous government.Mukoko sued the ministers and the police bosses after the Supreme Court granted her a permanent stay of prosecution after ruling that her constitutional rights were violated as a result of the abduction, torture and incommunicado detention.