THE MDC-T is pushing police to release its campaign motorbikes which were confiscated by the law enforcement agents in Bindura last month.
Report by Feluna Nleya
Party lawyer Tonderai Bhatasara said his client wanted to use the motorbikes for campaigning ahead of the forthcoming harmonized elections.
Police seized 15 motorbikes belonging to the MDC-T on suspicion they could have been smuggled into the country. The motorbikes were confiscated from the house belonging to an MDC-T employee, Susan Mawire, where they were being kept.
“We are being moved from post to pillar. They keep telling us to bring all sorts of information. We have taken the books to them but they continue to demand all sorts of information from us. It seems as if the police want us to do the investigations for them,” Bhatasara said.
“It is a ploy to delay releasing the bikes. They are delaying so that my clients cannot utilize them because I am meant to understand that they were for mobility so as to increase their campaign.”
Contacted for comment, police chief spokesperson Senior Assistant Commissioner Charity Charamba said: “I will find out how far we have gone with the investigations.”
The motor bikes were imported by Laphonic Investments, a company reportedly owned by the MDC-T party.
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This is not the first time that police have seized MDC-T campaign vehicles.
In 2008, police in Matabeleland North confiscated a bullet-proof BMW luxury vehicle which had reportedly been donated to MDC-T leader Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai by a South Africa well-wisher.
Police argued the vehicle was being driven by an unauthorised driver in terms of the Temporary Import Permit regulations.
Also in the same year, during the presidential runoff election campaign, police briefly impounded two MDC-T campaign buses arguing the vehicles were not properly registered.
