Kambarami is the chairperson for ward 9 Mpopoma constituency while Vera is the Youth Assembly ward chairperson.
After the night raid, the two activists were taken to Magnet House, which is the Central Intelligence Organisation provincial head office where they were heavily assaulted during interrogation which lasted into the early hours of the next day. The notorious Magnet House, which is used as a torture base by the CIO operatives, is owned by Obert Mpofu, a Zanu PF Politburo member.
According to the two MDC members, the merchants of torture claimed that they wanted to know which perceived “faction” the two belonged to and who had written an MDC slogan, which read; “MDC Kwese Kwese” at Sikanyiso Ndlovu’s house at Block 59 in Mpopoma.
Ndlovu is a Zanu PF Politburo member.
The State security agents also took photographs of the two victims and threatened them not to go to the press as they would abduct them again and make them disappear for good. However, the two said they would not be intimidated by the acts of the CIO operatives who were working on the orders of disgruntled Zanu PF politicians who are facing defeat in the next elections in 2013.
Since their release, they have been receiving anonymous calls and being visited by strange people driving unmarked vehicles.
Kambarami and Vera are currently receiving treatment for injuries sustained during the assault.
Meanwhile, police in Mberengwa have concluded that a faulty refrigerator thermostat sparked the fire that gutted down the shop of Charles Ndovisai, a war veteran whose shop Gumbo, the Zanu PF spokesperson claimed was torched by MDC youths.
The police said there were two 20 litre containers full of petrol and a generator, which vaporised due to the heat resulting in a spark from the thermostat igniting the fire. The police have since ruled out foul play.
The police said Zanu PF’s Rugare Gumbo was forcing them to arrest MDC youths in connection with the inferno although police investigations have shown that the incident was purely a faulty refrigerator rather than a politically motivated incident.
“We are being told to make arrests, but who do we arrest? The fire was started by a faulty fridge, which sparked and started the fire. What do we do?” asked a petrified police officer who refused to be named.
Gumbo is the Zanu PF national spokesperson and a losing parliamentary candidate in the Midlands South province in the 2008 elections.
Gumbo was on ZBC TV last week alleging that MDC supporters had burnt the shop in Mberengwa East, belonging to a war veteran Ndovisai.
In the early hours of last week Sunday at Nhenga Dam Business Centre, a shop belonging to a war veteran and Zanu PF member, Charles Ndovisai, caught fire destroying property and goods worth thousands of dollars.
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