TWO more suspects linked to the cryptic Facebook blogger ‘Baba Jukwa’ have been arrested in separate incidents in Harare and South Africa as police intensified investigations into the shadowy Zanu PF mole.
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The two, a University of Zimbabwe student, Romeo Musemburi and South Africa-based Zimbabwean journalist Mxolisi Ncube, were among the list of suspects believed to be linked to ‘Baba Jukwa’ which gained notoriety for exposing Zanu PF secrets especially in the run-up to last year’s elections.
Ncube who handed himself at the Zimbabwe Embassy in South Africa on Sunday was yesterday quizzed by the investigating officer in the case, Chief Superintendent Christopher Makedenge via phone with the help of embassy officials.
To date, two people The Sunday Mail editor Edmund Kudzayi and his brother Phillip have been locked up over the issue.
Police chief spokesperson Senior Assistant Commissioner Charity Charamba confirmed Musemburi’s arrest yesterday.
“Romeo Musemburi, a student at UZ arrested for criminal nuisance as he posted on Baba Jukwa that he wants guns to fight in the street,” Charamba said.
Musemburi handed himself to CID Law and Order Section yesterday morning accompanied by his lawyer, Tonderai Bhatasara and signed a warned and cautioned statement.
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“He was arrested for making a statement and posting it to the Gmail account of Baba Jukwa saying give us guns and we will hit the streets and fight for democracy,” Bhatasara said.
“A statement the police said was likely to disturb peace, convenience of the public section thereof.”
Musemburi, who denied the charge, is a second year student of Economics at the University of Zimbabwe.
Harare lawyer Obert Gutu also confirmed Ncube had a warned-and-cautioned statement recorded and released.
Ncube, who is officially on South African asylum said police had offered to provide him a flight ticket to Harare, but said he was reluctant to take up the offer for security reasons.
Other people wanted in connection with the anonymous blogger include Zimbabwean journalist Wilf Mbanga and his wife Trish, a system and software engineer based in the United Kingdom (UK) Walter Shoko, a computer programmer based in the UK, Samson Chifamba, a Zimbabwean based in UK, George Chirakasha, Anomie Drew, Piniel Nhokodi, and Sarudzai Florence.
