By Staff Reporter
A United State of America (USA) based MDC activist Tendai Gurure and his brother were arrested on Monday after they were involved in an accident in Harare ‘s Borrowdale low density suburb.
Tendai’s brother, who is the MDC’s organizing secretary for Marlborough was driving the car when the accident happened.
Following the accident, police attended the accident scene. Tendai did not have valid Zimbabwe identification. Subsequently, the two were taken to Borrowdale police
station for ‘further processing’.
During the ‘processing’ the policed claimed that they have been looking for Tendai in connection with his links with the opposition in Dallas where he has been based
for the past 20 years.
“On Monday we were driving along Inverary road when our car was involved in a minor accident. After the accident, we called the police. Since my bother did not
have valid Zimbabwe identification, we were taken Borrowdale police for ‘further processing’
To our surprise, one of the officers at the station, claimed that my brother is an anti -government activist and has been funding the opposition activities while in America,”
said the brother who refused to be named for fear of victimization in an interview with The Sun.
He said the two were detained at the police station and spend a night in filthy cells.
“At the police station, we were denied access to food or blankets. We were confined to a small, crowded dingy and dark cell with no proper ventilation and ablution
facilities,” he narrated.
The following morning, the two MDC activists claimed there were transferred from Borrowdale police station to the notorious Chikurubi prison where they spend
another night in detention.
The activists said they were released without any charges the third day after their arrests.
“Our arrest was a systematic campaign to silence me and my brother who have been openly involved in opposition politics since the formation of the MDC in 2000,” added the brother.
Repeated efforts to get a comment from police spokesperson Paul Nyathi were in vain as he was not answering his phone.