Kapisa was apprehended at around 2pm and handed over to police at Matapi police station where he was detained and released at around 7.30pm without being charged.
“Kapisa had gone to Mbare where he was giving kombi drivers some local newspapers which were supposed to be distributed to Chiota communal area when a group of suspected Zanu (PF) youths aligned to Chipangano apprehended him and handed him over to Mbare Police station accusing him of having a sinister motive,” said a CORAH official who declined to be named.
Speaking on his arrest to The Zimbabwean, Kapisa said: “The police released me saying that there was nothing wrong with what I was doing hence they could not file a charge against me. They advised me to exercise caution when operating in Mbare as the area is politically volatile.”
Station details could not give reasons for detaining Kapisa for a long period. When contacted, police spokesperson for Harare, Tadius Chibanda, however, said he was yet to receive a report concerning Kapisa’a arrest.
CORAH was formed in 2003 for purposes of developing and establishing a community radio station to broadcast in Harare and surrounding areas.
As part of its efforts to empower people with information, CORAH has over the years been conscientising grassroots communities on the need to demand their constitutional rights to freedom of expression and of access to means of information, hence their program to distribute local newspapers to remote and marginalised communities.
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