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Senior MDC official arrested in Mutare
Movement
for Democratic Change
October
18, 2012
The MDC Manicaland
provincial chairperson Julius Magarangoma was arrested this morning
by officers from the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) from
Mutare Central Police Station on false charges of public violence
in 2010 at Dorowa Business Centre in Buhera North.
Chairperson
Magarangoma is currently detained at Mutare Central Police Station
and there are strong indications that the police want to detain
him overnight.
The arrest of
Magarangoma is part of a well calculated plot by Zanu PF to intimidate
and harass MDC leadership and supporters ahead of the much anticipated
2013 elections. The arrest comes barely a week after the arrest
of Hon. Elton Mangoma, the MDC Deputy Treasurer General and Minister
of Energy Power Development on charges of insulting Robert Mugabe
in May in Bindura.
Another senior
MDC official, Hon. Settlement Chikwinya, the MP for Mbizo, was arrested
last Friday on frivolous charges that he had given a radio interview
to SW Radio.
The arrest of
Chairperson Magarangoma also comes at a time when the party in Manicaland
province is making final preparations for the Second All Stakeholders'
Conference on the draft
Constitution to be held in Harare from 21 to 23 October.
The MDC condemns
the continued harassment, intimidation and arrests of its officials,
members and supporters. These human rights abuses are nothing but
an effort by some dark forces in Zanu PF and State security agents
now in panic mode ahead of the referendum.
The party remains
resolute as it enters its last mile towards transformation that
will usher in a new Zimbabwe with jobs, better health, education
and improved service delivery.
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