THE Zimbabwe Revenue Authority (Zimra) yesterday foiled an
attempt by MDC-Alliance deputy chairman Mr Tendai Biti to smuggle copies of his
book, Democracy Works, without paying import duties.
The book was co-authored with former Nigerian president
Olusegun Obasanjo, Greg Mills of the Brenthurst Foundation and Jeffrey Herbst,
the president of the American Jewish University.
The incident happened at the Robert Gabriel Mugabe
International Airport ahead of the book’s official launch at Sapes Trust
resulting in delays of the proceedings.
It was later launched at Sapes Trust at an event attended
by MDC-A president Mr Nelson Chamisa, US Ambassador to Zimbabwe Mr Brian
Nichols and several of the party’s allies in the non-governmental organisation
sector.
Soon after the launch, Mr Biti acknowledged that the
consignment of books had been confiscated over import duty.
“They just took our books. We had like 200 books which we
intended to give our people, but they just took them and mind you this is the
second time they just took them.
“They just gave the excuse (about) customs and we said we
can pay the duty, they refused,” he said.
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