MDC Alliance vice president Tendai Biti says a report by a daily publication earlier on Monday that Harare magistrate, Chido Garwe issued a warrant of arrest against him shows the depth of “State Capture” in Zimbabwean media.
Reports has it that Biti who is accused of insulting a Russian investor, Tatiana Aleshina was issued a warrant of arrest for allegedly failing to appear in court.
On his Twitter handle, Advocate Biti said he was in court “the whole day”, and Magistrate Stanford Mambanje had since cancelled the warrant.
The former Finance Minister added that he was puzzled by publications who reported about the warrant when it was yet to be issued.
“Despite the fact that I was at court by 8.30 AM, State Prosecutor Micheal Reza applied for a warrant of arrest against me in my ongoing persecution engineered by land baron Ken Sharpe.
“This was a prepaid warrant as the @HeraldZimbabwe was reporting on the same before its issuance.
“In cancelling the Warrant, Magistrate Stanford Mambanje was critical of State position and State lies.” he said.
Biti insisted that President Emmerson “Mnangagwa” and his Zanu Pf counterparts will not succeed in silencing the opposition.
“It is quite clear the extent of State Capture and the desperate attempt to silence critical alternative voices. We have never been cowards. We never yielded on matters of principle.
“Our struggle is just one. Our struggle is a pure one, is for a just free democratic open Zim in which every citizen will live a happy prosperous life.
“Neither Mnangagwa nor his political commissars masquerading as prosecutors will stop wheels of change. A new Zim is beckoning.” added Biti.
Recently Tendai Biti described the International Monetary Fund (IMF) as a “naïve” and “dishonest” institution after it published a report forecasting a 7% growth in Zimbabwe’s economy.
He castigated the report saying it can only be believed by a failing President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s administration hungry for a remote success story.
Tendai Biti is the Deputy President of the MDC Alliance, Zimbabwe’s main opposition party and former Finance Minister.
