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Police
raid an MDC leased house
Movement
for Democratic Change (MDC)
October 24,
2009
Over 50 heavily
armed police officers last night raided an MDC leased house in Chisipite,
Harare purporting to search for arms of war cache.
The Chisipite house is
used by the MDC to cater for its leadership from out of Harare.
Addressing a press conference
at the party headquarters, Harvest House today, the MDC secretary-general,
Hon Tendai Biti, said the police broke into the house at 9 pm last
night and started assaulting an MDC employee, Moffat Nyandure who
guards the house.
The police officers who
also claimed they had a search warrant also assaulted Nyandure's
wife, Netsai Pfudza before they told him to dig around the house's
yard in search of the claimed weapons.
Nyandure was forced to
dig from 9 pm to 2 am.
Nothing was discovered
and the police left. However, before leaving they took with them
the search warrant they had produced and valuable party documents
belonging to deputy national organising secretary, Senator Morgen
Komichi.
"The long history
of Zanu PF of planting weapons and pressing charges of treason are
age old, tired, tactics of the Zanu PF dictatorship, but they must
know that this is a serious attack on our movement and we will not
back down", said Hon. Biti.
He said Zanu PF and the
State machinery had a long history of raiding and planting incriminating
evidence but he assured the people of Zimbabwe that the MDC remained
resolute in its fight against the Zanu PF dictatorship.
He said the MDC is a
peaceful party and would never use weapons of war but would use
the Constitution for free and fair elections to bring in a democratic
Zimbabwe and real change to the people of Zimbabwe.
The MDC believes that
this raid is a result of the party's decision made last week
to disengage from Zanu PF until all outstanding issues stalling
the inclusive government are resolved.
'These
acts of harassment are an attempt to intimidate us but we will not
be intimidated and our disengagement will not be reversed until
outstanding issues in the GPA
are resolved," Hon. Biti said.
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