Buhera South MP abducted on Monday at Mutare High Court; still missing
Via an MDC Press Release:
Hon. Naison Nemadziva, the MDC MP for Buhera South in Manicaland province was abducted at gunpoint on Monday, 30 2008 by a group of armed men in army uniforms at the Mutare High Court.
His whereabouts are unknown, and the MDC has been making frantic efforts to locate him.
Hon. Nemadziwa had gone to the high court for a court hearing in which the Zanu PF losing candidate, Joseph Chinotimba, is petitioning him over the result of the March 29 election in which Chinotimba lost.
As the MP was coming out of the court at around midday, five armed men who then drove off at high speed forced him into a parked Toyota twin cab truck that had no number plates.
One of the abductors was identified as ZNA colonel Morgan Mzilikazi.
A report was made to the police and MDC lawyers were told that Hon. Nemadziwa had been taken to Muzokomba police station in Buhera.
However, after a follow up to the said police station, Hon. Nemadziwa was not found and the police officers there were not aware of his whereabouts.
Over 10 MDC supporters have been murdered since Zanu PF held its sham election on 27 June 2008 in which the MDC did not participate because of the political violence perpetrated by Zanu PF militia backed by state security agents.
There has been a high increase in abductions, beatings and rapes at Zanu PF torture bases across the country since Zanu PF claimed on Sunday that it had won the “election” with a resounding victory.
July 3rd, 2008 16:54
This is in line with the rport earlier about the army officer spilling the beans that Mugabe’s aim was now to assassinate further member MDC MPs with the aim of forcing by-elections, which would then be rigged with violence so that Zanu-PF would regain the majority in parliament.
Nothing would surprise me about Mugabe who is capable of every foul deed in the book. I fear that history often shows, that in order for justice to triumph, one often has first to be armed with steel.
July 4th, 2008 06:51
Yes, the systematic assassination of elected MDC MP’s seems now to be under way.
Clearly there is nothing more the MDC can do inside Zimbabwe to save itself and its fellow Zimbabweans from Mugabe’s death squads. Perhaps the time has come for Morgan to take his elected government into exile in a friendly neighbouring country, perhaps Zambia or Mozambique, and from such a safe haven plan his future moves against Mugabe.
Deja vu?