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Another
MDC MP arrested
Movement
for Democratic Change (MDC)
July 31,
2009
The MP for Chinhoyi,
Hon. Stewart Garadhi, was arrested this morning in Chinhoyi barely
hours after the acquittal of another MDC Gutu East, MP Ransome Makamure,
who was facing trumped-up corruption charges.
Hon. Garadhi was travelling
from Harare to Chinhoyi when he was arrested by police officers
from the Law and Order section who accused him of playing a song,
Nharembozha alleging it denigrated President Robert Mugabe.
He is currently being
detained at Chinhoyi police provincial headquarters.
Meanwhile, Hon. Makamure
who was facing trumped-up charges of corruption was today acquitted
by Magistrate William Bhila.
Bhila questioned the
evidence submitted by one of the key witnesses, Brigadier General
Douglas Nyikayaramba.
It was discovered during
the trial that Nyikayaramba who the chairman of the farming logistics
subcommittee only advised MPs from Zanu PF on how the agricultural
inputs scheme worked when they were given the inputs last year.
It also emerged that
Nyikayaramba had threatened one his subordinates Major Mapuranga
who was also a witness in the trial for giving evidence that absolved
Hon. Makamure of any wrongdoing.
The magistrate also questioned
why the army was alleging that Hon. Makamure had committed the offence
on 24 October 2009 but the army claimed that they only started the
input scheme and the guidelines of distribution on 4 November 2009.
Several MDC MPs are appearing
in court facing false allegations that they abused the inputs scheme
and one MP, Hon. Ernest Mudavanhu, of Zaka North, has since been
convicted and sentenced to 12 months in prison.
There has been a systematic
crackdown on MDC MPs, members and activists in recent months as
Zanu PF and some government officials are bent on decimating the
party majority in parliament and its structures.
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