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Madzore strengthens bail bid with new affidavit
Movement for Democratic Change (MDC)
November 23, 2011

Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) Youth Assembly chairperson, Solomon Madzore, who is accused of murdering a police officer, Inspector Petros Mutedza on Wednesday 23 November 2011 bolstered his application for bail after his lawyers filed an affidavit deposed to by Hon. Douglas Mwonzora, the party's secretary for information and publicity denying that the youth leader evaded any arrest by the police.

In his response to Madzore's fresh bail application, Edmore Nyazamba of the Attorney General's Office had opposed the granting of bail arguing that the MDC youth leader had been on the run after the alleged murder of Inspector Mutedza and hence the police had failed to arrest him.

But in his affidavit which forms part of Madzore's new submissions, Hon. Mwonzora exonerated his party's youth leader for skirting arrest by stating that after the alleged commission of the offence, Madzore appeared with him and other party leaders in a number of public meetings where they interacted with the police such that if they wanted to arrest him they could have done so with ease.

The MDC spokesperson said Madzore, who was arrested early last month attended MDC rallies in July and September which were sanctioned by the police, who maintained a heavy presence and at which he even addressed party supporters.

Hon. Mwonzora said at all gatherings the police, who now claim that Madzore was on the run after the alleged murder of Inspector Mutedza, did not take any action to suggest that they were hunting for the MDC youth chairperson in connection with the murder of a police officer.

Justice Maria Zimba Dube on Wednesday 23 November 2011 postponed the bail hearing to Wednesday 30 November 2011 to allow Nyazamba to solicit responses from the police to the new affidavit and the recorded video footage and to allow Mtisi to file a supplementary affidavit.

The High Court is also expected to watch a video footage recorded at the MDC party's 12th anniversary celebrations held at Gwanzura Stadium on Saturday 10 September 2011, where Madzore addressed more than 20 000 party supporters as evidence to prove that the MDC youth leader was never on the run and on the police wanted person list.

Madzore's lawyer Gift Mtisi of Musendekwa and Mtisi Legal Practitioners recently filed the fresh bail application citing changed circumstances after Justice Hlekani Mwayera dismissed Madzore's first bail application last month. Justice Mwayera ruled that the MDC youth leader was a flight risk.

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