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MDC Youth Chairperson Madzore granted bail
Movement
for Democratic Change
November
13, 2012
Solomon Madzore,
the MDC Youth Assembly chairperson was granted a US$500 bail this
afternoon by High Court judge, Justice Chinembiri Bhunu.
Madzore is part
of the 29 MDC members who are on trial facing false
charges of murdering a police officer in Glen View, Harare in
May 2011. He was granted bail together with Lovemore Taruvinga Magaya.
The other MDC members minus Cynthia Manjoro are still in remand
prison. Manjoro was granted bail by Justice Bhunu three weeks ago.
Madzore has
been in remand prison for over a year since his arrest on 3 October
2011. The bail application for the other 26 members is expected
to be heard on Friday when the trial resumes.
Meanwhile, the
cross examination of Chief Inspector Clever Ntini of the Criminal
Investigation Department (CID) ended today with the defence lawyers,
led by Beatrice Mtetwa accusing him of carrying "the shoddiest
jobs in terms of police investigations." Ntini is the investigating
officer in the matter.
Mtetwa said
due to failure by Ntini and his team of dictators to verify alibis
of the accused, it resulted in innocent people being arrested and
standing trial.
"The investigations
were done more to hide the truth than to find the actual perpetrators
of the offence," Lawyer Mtetwa said adding that Madzore's
alibi was suppressed in order to hide the truth.
The police also
failed to carry out any identification parade on the accused and
had to solely rely on unnamed informers. "The failure to conduct
an identification parade constituted a very serious failure in your
investigations. You grossly failed to investigate as the investigation
officer to tie up each of the accused to the crime," said
Mtetwa.
The MDC has
since last year maintained that the MDC members are innocent and
are on trial because of their belief in fighting for real change,
a better Zimbabwe for all with jobs, health and education.
The long incarceration
of Madzore shows that the Attorney-General's Office is being
used by Zanu PF for persecuting and not prosecuting MDC officials.
It vindicates our position that the Glen View murder trial is 100
percent to do with politics rather than justice.
The Glen View
murder case is just but one of the several instances where national
institutions such as the Attorney-General's Office have been
abused by Zanu PF to achieve its political ends.
The trial resumes
on Friday.
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