Tendai Biti wanted by Zimbabwe police
Brutal Zimbabwe police say they are itching for Movement for Democratic Change Secretary General Tendai Biti meanwhile they have also arrested 10 other members of the opposition in the capital Harare, it has emerged.
In a statement to the government mouthpiece, Herald police Commissioner-General Augustine Chihuri said Mr Biti is wanted for “illegally” declaring results of the March 29, 2008 harmonised elections in contravention of the Electoral Act, which he claimed gives the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission the exclusive right to announce results.
The MDC lost patience over delays to announce results and took it upon its rights to announce that the opposition had won the elections through Mr Biti as the party;’s secretary general.
Yesterday, Chihuri wrote to Mr Biti advising him that police were keen to interview him. Being interviewed by police in Zimbabwe would always mean to be locked up in filth and crowded cells.
"Maybe, this you may cite as having been a deliberate delay in bringing the culprit to book, but as all know, the swift arm of the law will always catch up with the evildoer," read part of the letter written by Chihuri to Biti who is out of the country.
The six who were charged with burning a bus in Harare during a failed general strike last month were remanded in custody on Wednesday when they appeared before a magistrate's court on public violence charges.
Phiri said in the Bindura incident four opposition Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) activists were driving around the township early in the week when they bundled a soldier into their car and headed for an unknown destination.
"The soldier managed to jump out of the vehicle but he was seriously injured and is still in hospital," he said.
Scores of opposition activists have been arrested in the aftermath of Zimbabwe's March 29 general elections.
At least 30 including the party's information director, Luke Tamborinyoka and freelance journalists were remanded in custody on charges of burning a bus on the first day of a planned indefinite strike designed to force the release of presidential election results. SAPA/AFP/Zim Diaspora
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