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President Tsvangirai visits Komichi, Glen View 29 at Chikurubi
Movement
for Democratic Change (MDC-T)
September
03, 2013
President Tsvangirai
today visited the MDC deputy chairperson Senator Morgen Komichi
who is incarcerated at the Chikurubi Maximum Security prison on
false charges of contravening the electoral law.
Senator Komichi
was arrested in July after he handed to the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission
(ZEC) a special vote ballot paper which had been picked from a dustbin
at the Harare International Conference Centre (HICC) in the last
election.
Addressing journalists
after the visit, President Tsvangirai said it was absurd that instead
of prosecuting ZEC officials for negligence they were instead incarcerating
Komichi for exposing the irregularity.
“It is
strange that they chose to incarcerate Komichi instead of ZEC for
its negligence in the election,” said the President.
The President
who took opportunity to see the remaining
four Glen View 29; Last Maengahama, Yvonne Musarurwa, Simon
Mapanzure and Tungamirai Madzokere said he was encouraged to see
them in good spirit.
He said the
four including Senator Komichi gave him words of encouragement to
continue with the struggle for a new democratic dispensation. “I
was quite touched and encouraged to hear them say President do not
give up, let us continue with the fight” said President Tsvangirai.
Turning on to
the SADC report issued yesterday which “endorsed”
the outcome of the
just ended fraudulent election, President Tsvangirai said it
was expected given that they had already endorsed the result in
their preliminary report.
He said by referring
to the issue of sanctions and pirate radio stations, which had nothing
to do with the manner in which the last elections were prepared
and conducted; the SADC observer mission leader was certainly reading
from a Zanu PF script. He said he would launch a formal complaint
with SADC and the AU.
President Tsvangirai
said he was aware of the crisis of expectation from the people Zimbabwe
whose victory was stolen but cautioned that dealing with a dictator
required time, patience and resilience adding that the MDC would
continue with the democratic means to bring real change in Zimbabwe.
He said the biggest mistake people can make is to give up the struggle.
The President said he would soon consult with the people of Zimbabwe
on the way forward.
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