On Monday the MDC-T issued an alert expressing concern over the fate of their secretary for Local Government, Last Maengahama, after he was picked up in the morning by two unidentified men in plain clothes in Harares central business district. The party had said his whereabouts remain unknown and that they were making frantic efforts to locate him.
On Tuesday it turned out the matter was a false alarm and that in fact Maengahama was embroiled in a dispute of a personal nature according to one MDC-T official who spoke to SW Radio Africa. Although he refused to disclose the exact details of the case, we understand someone who was owed money by Maengahama recruited the services of the police to try and recover his money.
Efforts by concerned party members to locate Maengahama proved fruitless as he allegedly switched off his phone the whole day on Monday. Its not clear why the plain clothes policemen who picked up the MDC-T official were involving themselves in an entirely civil matter.
State security agents have been known to abduct MDC officials in similar fashion and this, party officials say, is the reason why they raised the alarm when they could not locate Maengahama after seeing him being taken away.
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