Former cabinet minister Saviour Kasukuwere, says he is not moved by arrest threats and vowed to fly back to Zimbabwe to launch his election campaign.
Kasukuwere who is set to contest for this year’s presidential election as an independent candidate, went to exile in South Africa after the 2017 military coup which toppled his late master Robert Mugabe from power.
According to police reports, Kasukuwere has two pending warrants of arrest for absconding court and not surrendering his passport.
Mabhiza claim that the former Zanu PF political commissar absconded court and failed to surrender his passport when he was ordered to do so by the courts in 2019.
Chairperson for Kasukuwere’s campaigning team former Minister Walter Mzembi accused President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s administration of “weaponising” the law against rivals.
In his media address, the exiled Mzembi said Kasukuwere was unperturbed and determined to launch his campaign on a soon-to-be announced date in the capital city of Harare.
“No amount of intimidation and weaponisation of the law will intimidate Kasukuwere. He is going to be in Harare,” he said.
Mzembi said the only legal matter involving Kasukuwere was dismissed by the country’s High Court.
Kasukuwere told SABC News last week that he would soon fly to Zimbabwe to commence his campaigns.
He said he was organising more than 500 buses to transport Zimbabweans domiciled in neighbouring countries home to vote on August 23.
