Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) Security administrator Edith Mashaire who the party claims escaped an attempted abduction speaks during a press conference which was addressed by the party's spokesman Nelson Chamisain Harare on October 27, 2009.
We’ve just received information that MDC employee Pascal Gwezere was abducted today by armed men driving an Isuzu twin-cab in the Mufakose area of Harare at 6.45 pm tonight. We have confirmed that this is true, but apart from those details this is all the information we have at this point.
Earlier today the MDC issued a press release describing how their security administrator, Edith Mashayire, was almost abducted by four armed men, also driving an Isuzu twin-cab. They had guns and claimed she was ‘under arrest’. It is unknown at this time whether the same men were involved in Gwazere’s abduction or not.
A house belonging to the MDC was raided earlier this week by armed men who claimed they were looking for hidden weapons. They did not have a warrant to search the property.
Towards the end of last year state agents abducted several human rights and civic activists, including Jestina Mukoko from the Zimbabwe Peace Project. Mukoko was recently granted a permanent stay of prosecution of the crimes she was accused of committing, due to the violation of several of her fundamental rights by state agents. One of the violations of her rights included the fact she was unlawfully ‘arrested’. Others who were also abducted at this time are still facing charges of sabotage based on the bombing of police stations and railway lines in 2008.
The MDC expressed concern earlier this week that the recent raid on their house may have been a pretext to plant weapons in order to fabricate evidence and justify trumped-up cases against members in their party.
Today’s abduction and attempted abduction are worrying reminders of Zanu PF’s illegal and violent tactics used against civilians to achieve political objectives.
We’ll post an update on Pascal Gwezere’s abduction as soon as we have one.
These abductions wont change anything ,in fact lets stock food guys and go back to treaches ,the war is not over .Change will come no matter what it takes.
Its very likely that you are in Canada or somewhere Dumi.Those on the ground are already getting that earie feeling from June last year.
These new hapless boys, there was no way the day could end without an MDC abduction. Can you imagine they were sent this morning to abduct a woman and they failed?
Running back to Red Bricks sweating and all claiming she had scratched them with her nails – Didymus told them he was having none of it he needed an MDC person to torture before midnight – and Pascal just happened to be distributing MDC flyers in Mufombi.
It was probably Mukoma P and gang in new shiny tracksuits!
-Vakuru Chaivo-
True, vakuru chaivo, you forgot to mention that she took off her gogo and smacked on of us with it.Hilarious indeed.
Abel do you want Zimbabwe to be a failed state like Somalia? I think there is a hunter in Zimbabwe who eats human flesh. Life is a free gift that comes from God. It is not good to kill.
All those who were doubting Edith’s story please comment.
Dzimai, I dont want a failed state but it seems we are heading there. We will now witness a combination of Zanu pf raw brutality coupled by MDC-T perfected stage antics , we wont know which ones are genuine and which ones are fake, in the meantime its suffer continue.I have personally never believed in people having to be killed, maybe just a couple of strikes under the feet.