MDC Transport Manager abducted, party fears for his life
October 28th, 2009
MDC-T Press Release — Six armed men in a grey Isuzu last night kidnapped MDC transport manager Pascal Gwezere from his home in Mufakose, Harare
Gwezere had just arrived home from work when the six men descended on his home and said he was under arrest and took him away.
A witness said six men using a grey Isuzu without number plates came and took him away, saying he was under arrest.
Today, the men reportedly came back using a cream Mitsubishi Registration Number AAB 0646 and took away his wife’s cellphone. They reportedly told her that Gwezere had been detained at Marimba police station.
MDC lawyers are desperately trying to establish whether it is true that he is at Marimba Police Station.
Over 200 MDC supporters were abducted and killed last year after Zanu PF unleashed an orgy of violence in the run-up to the sham June 27 Presidential run-off election.
Gwezere’s abduction came hours after the attempted kidnapping of Security Administrator Edith Mashaire in central Harare. Four armed men in an Isuzu truck Registration Number ABA 8742 tried to kidnap her on her way to work yesterday morning but were foiled by the crowd.
The MDC fears for Gwezere’s life, which exposes the soured political environment in the country which flies in the face of the letter and spirit of the GPA.
The kidnappings come barely four days after armed police raided an MDC house in Chisipite. There appears to be a desperate and laughable attempt by Zanu PF to link the MDC to the disappearance of an arms cache at Pomona Barracks in Borrowdale. Two MDC MPs, Hon Reggie Moyo (Luveve) and Hon Albert Mhlanga (Pumula) were arrested at a roadblock in Bulawayo and detained overnight at Bulawayo Central Police Station on a spurious allegation that Hon Moyo’s car had been used to ferry the stolen ammunition from Polomona Barracks in Harare.
The two were released without charge the following morning.
