By Mandulo Pasichigare| ANOTHER “MPHOKO” VISIT TO RAINBOW TOWERS LEADS TO DEMONSTRATOR’S ARREST
Stendrick Zvorwadza, who on Friday 24th June, 2016 led a peaceful demonstration by human rights activists under the banners of ROHR Zimbabwe, NAVUZ and TAJAMUKA at the Rainbow Towers, where Vice President Phelekezela Mphoko has stayed since December 2014, once again visited the same venue today, demanding that Mphoko should leave the expensive accommodation.
An adamant Mphoko has said those peddling “falsehoods” are bent on tarnishing his “clean image”, adding that they will not succeed in their bid to discredit him.
Zvorwadza persisted on his demands until he was arrested by officers of the Zimbabwe Republic Police. Four journalists filming the protest were also nabbed.
Zvorwadza was then taken away to Harare Central Police Station where at the time of writing, he was still under detention since Sunday morning.
He was charged with threatening to burn down Rainbow Towers if Vice President Mphoko remains in that hotel, utterances he never made, going by eyewitness accounts and a video recorded at the scene, today.
The Zimbabwe Republic Police is notorious for using violence and torture on demonstrators. It is also notorious for laying trumped up charges against dissenting citizens as a deterrent and to justify the detention of such individuals, usually for protracted periods of time, only to drop the charges before they evolve into a trial in the law courts.
Mphoko’s continued stay at the Rainbow Towers has cost the Zimbabwean taxpayers an excess of $250 000.00 as at today. This has riled the Zimbabwean people and has been condemned by civic society and opposition politicians.
Mphoko has so far spurned three offers to be accommodated in high value properties paid for by the Zimbabwean Government.
One of the houses Mphoko refused to move into is the one left by the late vice president Joseph Msika in Harare’s leafy Mandara suburb. The second one is a mansion worth $3m in Ballantyne Park, another affluent suburb. The third is a $3.5m one acquired in December last year in The Grange.
In all the three known instances where the Mphokos have rejected the offers of accommodation, Mphoko’s wife, Laurinda, is said to have condemned the properties as substandard relative to the Vice President’s stature. More to follow…
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When 92 year old Bob dies and we put mphoko&doin chikurubi I wonder if he will still think 4 million dollar houses I. Borrowdale are substandard for him
I support you Baba Mphoko 100%. You are one of us. To hell with Shonas. It’s them who gave us Mugabe in 1980. They should shut up.
They are only making noise now because they are now his victims. When it was us alone they were laughing at us calling us names.
To hell. No retreat, no surrender. Stay put until they shut in their pants.
Until they treat all Zimbabweans equally we will always back our own nomakanjani!!
What is the status of this mboko guy. Taking notes from Grace Marujata Mugabe, boot licking and sucking. Give us a break. These ZANU PF thugs do not know that although they are looting, their positions are dehumanizing, to be lead by a 92 years old great grandfather who is always sleeping in the office. After this they stampede over each in trying to out-compete each other in praising this Mugabe and his Marujata, who thinks and believes that power is sexually transmitted.
What is the status of this mboko guy. Taking notes from Grace Marujata Mugabe, boot licking and sucking. Give us a break. These ZANU PF thugs do not know that although they are looting, their positions are dehumanizing, to be lead by a 92 years old great grandfather who is always sleeping in the office. After this they stampede over each in trying to out-compete each other in praising this Mugabe and his Marujata, who thinks and believes that power is sexually transmitted.