Musengezi was granted $30 000 bail last week after spending
days in remand prison for allegedly falsifying his address to obtain Zanu PF
party membership.
Yesterday, Musengezi said he had filed a court case against
the police for refusing to give him back his identity card which they took
during interrogation.
“The police also took my metal national identity card
during interrogation and up to now they have not given it back to me. After
making enquiries, they claimed ignorance. I had to make a formal report in case
the ID card finds its way to a crime scene,” Musengezi posted on Twitter.
“They put me in jail, intimidated, inhumanely treated and
harassed me and those close to me so as to break my spirit and force me into
submission, but that’s not gonna (going to) happen.
“Since my arrest and ‘profiling’, unidentified people have
been coming as they please at my house pretending to be making enquiries, some
just park and sit by the roadside anytime they want,” said Musengezi.
Efforts to get a comment from national police spokesperson
Assistant Commissioner Paul Nyathi were fruitless as he was not picking calls.
But documents seen by NewsDay revealed that Musengezi’s
complaint was recorded under “lost property” at the Harare Central Police
Station.
In the lost property form 169, police said Musengezi
claimed he lost his ID when he was in police custody.
Musengezi’s lawyer Douglas Coltart told NewsDay that he had
not yet been notified of the claims by his client. Newsday
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