ZIMBABWE — HARARE  — THE case in which MDC Highfield East Member of the House of Assembly Pearson Mungofa is on trial for allegedly causing disaffection among defence forces took a new twist as one of the key witnesses in the case vehemently denied that Mungofa committed a crime.  

It is the State's case that Mungofa went to KGVI in the company of MDC secretary for defence Tichaona Augustos Mudzingwa (now deputy minister of defence) and communicated falsehoods to the soldiers present that Morgan Tsvangirai had won last year’s Presidential election well before the Zanu-PF alligned Zimbabwe Electoral Commission announced the results.

 

 

Key witness Captain Owen Mudziviri (military intelligence) said Mungofa "never opened his mouth at the Army headquarters". He added that Mungofa had only greeted him.
 
"Mungofa did not communicate anything to the soldiers," he said adding that he was not legally qualified to judge whether Mungofa committed an offence after being pressed to give his view if it was an offence.
 
“Mungofa greeted me and he never addressed us on anything. “He did not say nor act in a manner that affected my operations as a soldier,” he said.
 
“I was trained to fight and to command among other military duties and I never set my foot at the school of law.

 

I am not qualified to comment on legal issues and I choose to remain a soldier,” Mudziviri said after being pressed to give his view whether Mungofa was guilty or innocent.
 
“If the greeting was false, then I would safely say he communicated falsehoods,” he said.

 

The trial has been deferred to April 27 when the last State witness Major General Martin Chedondo will give evidence.

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Meanwhile, Chief Justice Godfrey Chidyausiku today dismissed a bail application filed by two MDC officials and a journalist who are facing trumped up charges of banditry, insurgency and terrorism.

Chris Dhlamini, MDC head of security, Gandhi Mudzingwa, Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai’s former aide and freelance journalist Andrison Manyere have been in remand prison since December last year.

Justice Chidyausiku denied bail to the three arguing that there was no misdirection to an earlier ruling by High Court Judge Justice Yunus Omerjee.

However, MDC lawyers are going to file another urgent bail application at the High Court tomorrow applying for the immediate release of the three.

The new bail application is expected to be heard on Wednesday.

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“The M D C views the continued detention of the three political detainees as going against the spirit and letter of the Global Political Agreement (GPA) that was signed by the three main political parties last year,” spokesman Luke Tamborinyoka said.

 

“The continued detention of MDC activists has nothing to do with the l aw but is a product of political machinations of the residual elements in Zanu PF and the securocrats who are waging a perpetual battle to scuttle change by undermining the inclusive government.

“The M D C calls for the immediate release of the three prisoners and the scores of MDC activists who are being held in secret locations after they were abducted by State security agents last year.”

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