State security agents interrogated former Local Government
minister Saviour Kasukuwere’s brother, on the day government claimed there were
people spreading rumours of an “imminent coup”.
Home Affairs minister Kazembe Kazembe told journalists that
Kasukuwere, known as Tyson during his time in Zanu PF, who skipped the country
after soldiers allegedly tried to kill him and his family during the 2017 coup,
was among people peddling the coup rumours.
The former Zanu PF commissar’s brother Dickson Mafios was
arrested as he left Harare Polytechnic alongside Rushinga MP Wonder Mashange,
where they were on quarantine after a recent trip to South Africa.
The two, who are members of the opposition National
Patriotic Front, made up largely of G40 members that were targeted during the
coup against former president Robert Mugabe, were released without charges
being laid against them.
Their passports were allegedly confiscated by the police
“to check with immigration officers”.
Although both Mafios and Mashange refused to comment on
their arrest, well-placed sources revealed the two were taken to the police’s
law and order section.
The pair was later moved to Braeside Police Station after
the police allegedly said they had nothing to do with their arrest.
At Braeside, they were reportedly grilled by Central
Intelligence Organisation agents who wanted to know why they were in South
Africa, and what they were “plotting” with Kasukuwere.
“They were grilled on Kasukuwere’s whereabouts, where he
stays, his movements, his contacts in government as well as in the military,”
the source disclosed.
“They were released later, but without their passports,
with the CIO agents saying they wanted to check something with the immigration
department.
“Throughout the interrogation, Mashange was asking the
police and CIOs if he was under arrest, and was told that they only wanted to
talk to them, and they were not under arrest.”
National police spokesperson Assistant Commissioner Paul
Nyathi was not answering his mobile phone yesterday. Standard
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