By James Muonwa, Mashonaland West Correspondent
THE lawyer representing 12 MDC Alliance officials, arrested last month at the party’s Chinhoyi offices holding a meeting allegedly in defiance of Covid-19 lockdown regulations, has applied for refusal of further remand.
Fortune Murisi argued the accused persons did not commit any offence and described their arrests as unlawful.
On Friday, he lodged the application before Chinhoyi magistrate Lisa Mutendereki, who deferred her ruling to 31 March 2021.
Said Murisi after the court hearing; “We applied for refusal of further remand, the argument being that no offence was committed neither a reasonable suspicion that an offence was committed.
By James Muonwa, Mashonaland West Correspondent
THERE are fears that 11 of the 12 MDC Alliance officials, recently arrested for holding a meeting in defiance of Covid-19 regulations, could have contracted the deadly virus while detained at Chinhoyi Police Station.
One of the officials was arrested and placed in holding cells while recuperating from lethal respiratory disease.
The opposition party functionaries, who are provincial administrative committee (PAC) officials, were Saturday arrested at the party’s Chinhoyi offices in Mzari suburb, and force-marched to the police station before being thrown into holding cells for two nights.
One of the MDC Alliance officials, Kudakwashe Chigumo, who is also Karoi Urban Ward 6 councillor, tested Covid-19 positive on 18 January 2021 and fell critically ill for a prolonged period before his slight recovery this month.
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