MDC-T wants police to release its campaign bikes

THE Movement for Democratic Change led by Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai is pushing police to release its campaign motorbikes which were confiscated by the law enforcement agents in Bindura last month.

Party lawyer Tonderai Bhatasara said his client wanted to use the motorbikes for campaigning ahead of the forthcoming harmonized elections, Newsday reported.

Police seized 15 motorbikes belonging to the MDC-T on suspicion they could have been smuggled into the country. The motorbikes were confiscated from the house belonging to an MDC-T employee, Susan Mawire, where they were being kept.

"We are being moved from post to pillar. They keep telling us to bring all sorts of information. We have taken the books to them but they continue to demand all sorts of information from us. It seems as if the police want us to do the investigations for them," Bhatasara said.

"It is a ploy to delay releasing the bikes. They are delaying so that my clients cannot utilize them because I am meant to understand that they were for mobility so as to increase their campaign."

Contacted for comment, police chief spokesperson Senior Assistant Commissioner Charity Charamba said: "I will find out how far we have gone with the investigations."

The motor bikes were imported by Laphonic Investments, a company reportedly owned by the MDC-T party.