Barely 48 hours before the upcoming hotly contested by-elections, Themba Mliswa’s Chief Election Agent,Goodwell Zinyama, has been arrested.
At approximately 18:30hrs yesterday evening (Wednesday 3rd June 2015), Mr. Goodwell Zinyama, Mliswa’s was arrested by members of the ZRP Chinhoyi on what Mliswa’s team say are “trumped up charges of assault”.
 
Zinyama was travelling from Harare to Karoi with a group of students when the combi they were travelling in was stopped at a road block on arrival in Chinhoyi.
“It seems as though the police were on the alert for the combi and had trailed it from Harare,” a witness report seen by ZimEye.com says.
 
At the time of writing he was under detention at Chinhoyi Police Station.
The arrest is seen as another in the now frequent attempts by the ruling party to frustrate Mliswa candidacy as an Independent in Hurungwe West. Mliswa himself was released only a few hours before this arrest as the State failed to prosecute due to the absence of grounds.
 
Mliswa team told ZimEye.com, “This has now become the modus operandi as false charges upon false charges are being heaped upon Temba and his team to interfere in their campaign efforts. What is saddening to note is the way in which the ZRP, the custodians of law and order are being blatantly used at the whim of political expediency.
 
“We are working tirelessly to secure Zinyama’s release and pray that justice will prevail.”