SW Radio Africa has information that the ZANU PF youth chairperson for Harare Province Jim Kunaka, known as Jimmy, has offered MDC-T youths US$2000 each for any information leading to the location and arrest of MDC-T Youth Assembly chairman Solomon Madzore and his Secretary General Promise Mkwananzi.
Speaking to us on Wednesday, Mkwananzi vowed they would not hand themselves over to the police and subject themselves to deliberate victimization.
“We have said that it is not legal in any way for the police to round up 24 people and say, we think one of you has killed a police officer,” Mkwananzi said.
He accused ZANU PF, the police and the state security agencies of having politicised the death of Inspector Petros Mutedza following a brawl with vendors in a nightclub.
“We will not allow ZANU PF to disable us from exercising leadership of the Youth Assembly. We have not committed any crime,” he said. Mkwananzi said they will send their lawyers to enquire from the police on why they are looking for them.
Meanwhile Anna Manjoro, mother to Cynthia Fungai Manjoro, one of those arrested over the policeman’s death, broke down during SW Radio Africa’s Question Time programme on Wednesday, while talking about her daughter’s incarceration. She said her daughter was nowhere near the scene of the crime and although police claim her car was seen in Glen View, they are using her as bait to force the driver to hand himself over.
Cynthia, she told us, does not have a driver’s licence and only drove the car under supervision the day she bought it some time ago. Mai Manjoro said her daughter is not only asthmatic but has a 2 year old child that she needs to look after. The female detainees are being held the Chikurubi Maximum prison while the men are at Harare Remand Prison.
On Tuesday the defence lawyer Charles Kwaramba told SW Radio Africa that 19 out of the 20 MDC-T members accused of murdering the policeman were nowhere near the scene of the crime. Kwaramba even challenged the state to particularise and state the role played by each suspect in the offence to prove ‘reasonable suspicion’ and the strength of the state’s case.
The state has failed to present any tangible evidence, amid reports all the accused have strong alibis. A good example is Last Maengahama who was arrested together with his three brothers, Stanley, Edison and Lazarus. The MDC National Executive Committee member was at a church service during the skirmishes and there is also video footage filmed by one of the priests showing him among the parishioners.
NB: To listen to the full interview with Anna Manjoro tune in to Question Time with Lance Guma this Wednesday.
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