Mai Tsvangirai prayed and encouraged them to remain focused as their illegal detention will soon pass. The MDC members thanked Mai Tsvangirai for paying them the visit and asked her to pass a congratulatory message to President Tsvangirai on the MDC turning 13 years.
The party last Saturday celebrated its 13th anniversary at a colourful event held at the White City Stadium in Bulawayo. The celebrations were attended by over 30 000 supporters.
They were optimistic that they would be released soon and continue with the struggle to bring real change to the country. Their ruling on a bail application made last month is expected to be heard by Justice Chinembiri Bhunu at the High Court on Monday.
However, some overzealous prison officers tried to prevent Mai Tsvangirai from seeing the MDC members. It took the intervention of Senator Obert Gutu, the Deputy Minister of Justice and Legal Affairs for her to be allowed in.
Later in the day, Mai Tsvangirai visited Harare Remand Prison where the other members are detained.
The prison officers refused Mai Tsvangirai to give the members food that she had brought for them as they claimed that they had received communication from the parent ministry for inmates not to receive food from outside. Mai Tsvangirai however, failed to see other two members as they are admitted in the prison hospital. The two are; Gapara Nyamadzawo and Phineas Nhatarikwa.
Some of the MDC members have been in prison for 17 months awaiting trial.
She was accompanied by the Minister of Home Affairs, Hon. Theresa Makone, Senator Gutu, the Deputy Minister of Information, Media and Publicity, Hon. Murisi Zwizwai and Chikomo Senator, Hon. Morgan Femai.
The MDC’s position is that the continued detention of the MDC members is illegal and demands their immediate release.
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