FORMER Zanu PF Mashonaland Central provincial chairman
Dickson Mafios was arrested yesterday, a day after his brother, former Local
Government minister Saviour Kasukuwere was named among people plotting to oust
President Emmerson Mnangagwa.
Mafios was arrested as soon as he was released from Harare
Poly quarantine centre.
He was arrested together with former legislator Wonder
Mashange, who together with him, are members of the opposition National
Patriotic Front, made up of largely G40 members ousted from government by
Mnangagwa in a November 2017 coup.
NewsDay was still to establish the allegations being
levelled against the two.
But National Patriotic Front spokesperson Jealousy Mawarire
confirmed the arrests, saying the two were taken to Braeside Police Station in
Harare.
“We condemn in the strongest sense the harassment of
citizens using security agents and lawfare,” Mawarire said.
Mafios was once convicted of border jumping after skipping
the country during Operation Restore Legacy in November 2017 and was convicted
and sentenced to two years imprisonment.
He once accused Mnangagwa of being corrupt and controlling
mining cartels and machete gangs across the country before the ouster of former
President Robert Mugabe in a military coup. Newsday
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