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| Detective jailed for leaking information to MDC |
| By Our Correspondent Kavhurangara is accused of having passed information to the Movement for Democratic Change (MDC), whose members have accused by the police of carrying out the bombings. His colleague, Niros Muyashu, is reported to have been released this week after having served an effective five-day sentence at the same camp for the same offence. Harare lawyer Ralph Maganga said his client was slapped with the jail sentence by a senior police officer at Harare Central Police station who presided over the matter as a trial officer. Said Maganga: "My client was found guilty of the offence (leaking information to the MDC) and slapped with a sentence of 11 days at the Chikurubi Detention Barracks where he will be doing hard labour. A trial officer presided over the matter and found him guilty of having parceled data on the police investigations to the MDC." Maganga highlighted that his client had directed him not to challenge the sentence, saying doing so could further "complicate things", although he still denied the allegations. The state argues Kavhurangara and his co-accused Muyashu disposed of highly confidential information on the police investigations to the MDC, thereby compromising police investigations into the bombings. More than 13 MDC activists and officials are currently in remand prison over the spate of bombings with the police buying time to conclude their investigations into the matter. The police, however, claim they are still to conclude their investigations. According to the police charge sheet, Muyashu contravened section 35, Chapter 11:10 of the Police Act which prohibits any member of the force against "acting in an unbecoming manner or disorderly manner or in any manner prejudicial to good order or discipline or unreasonably likely to bring discredit to the police force." The police allege that between April 5 and 7, Muyashu relaxed conditions set by the Criminal Investigations Department (CID) and allowed MDC officials and their supporters to see their colleagues in police cells. Read part of the state outline: "…the accused, being a member of the force, communicated with MDC activists and leadership, passing crucial information through his cell phone and at times visiting them and passing the information. "The defaulter did this without the knowledge of CID Law and Order Command Structure on the pretext that he was seeking vital information for the state for use by the CID Law and Order Harare, an act or behaviour which has unbecoming or disorderly or prejudicial to good order or discipline or reasonably likely to bring insecurity and discredit to the police force in the circumstances." Muyashu was accused of organizing for the feeding of the MDC members and also allowing the activists visitors against a standing order by the CID Law and Order Section Command. Said the state: "…Between April 5 and 7 2007 at the Harare Central Police Station, the accused, being a member of the Force, clandestinely communicated with MDC activists who had their co-activists held at Harare Central Police cells and organized the feeding of the detained (suspects) by their relatives or co-activists outside the knowledge of the CID Law and Order Structure, an act or behaviour which was unbecoming or disorderly or prejudicial to good order or discipline or reasonably likely to bring discredit to the police force in the circumstances." |
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