By A Correspondent| At Harare Magistrates Court, Joana Mamombe and Cecelia Chimbiri’s lawyer Charles Kwaramba has appealed to Magistrate Stanford Mambanje to release the duo on bail.

But Prosecutor Audrey Chogumaira is opposing the bail application saying the duo committed the offence while out of custody on bail.

Chogumaira says the accused persons are not proper candidates to be set free on bail.

Chogumaira said Mamombe and Chimbiri are “undermining the court system” which would have granted them bail by committing other offences.

Kwaramba says the duo is being targeted as part of political persecution since Mamombe and Chimbiri are opposition MDC Alliance party youth leaders.

Kwaramba says the charge of contravening national lockdown was repealed and hence the charge is defective.

Kwaramba tells Magistrate Mambanje that the duo was arrested while coming from medical check ups at Dr Norman Matara’s medical chambers and had been advised to undergo some procedures and treatment.

Kwaramba added that Mamombe and Chimbiri were only arrested by the police assumed that they were part of a demo allegedly staged at New Government Complex and yet they weren’t part of the protest.

More to follow….