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Chipinge
East MP sentenced to 10 months in prison
Movement
for Democratic Change (MDC)
May 11, 2009
Chipinge East MP Hon.
Matewu Mathias Mlambo, was today sentenced to 10 months in prison
on trumped up charges of public violence by a Chipinge magistrate.
Hon. Mlambo, who was
arrested in his constituency last month at a burial of an MDC activist,
had three months of the sentence set aside.
The State accused the
MP of defeating the course of justice alleging that the MP had prevented
them from arresting a yet to be identified person who was at the
funeral.
He spent more than a
week in prison before he was released on bail.
The magistrate denied
Hon. Mlambo a chance to apply for bail pending appeal against the
sentence.
Meanwhile, the MP for
Chipinge South, Hon. Meki Makuyana who is also facing trumped charges
of inciting violence during the run-up to the June 27 2008 presidential
run-off elections had his ruling set for 27 May by the same magistrate.
Hon. Makuyana was arrested
together with 15 MDC activists at his business premises in Chiredzi
last year on allegations of inciting violence and was only released
on bail in January this year.
The MDC views today's
rulings as an attempt to scuttle the work of the inclusive government.
It is also part of a well-calculated plot to reduce the MDC majority
in parliament after the party heavily defeated Zanu PF on 29 March
2008.
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