Mujuru scoffs at arrest threat

Hounded former Vice President Joice Mujuru maintains that she is not afraid of the ruthless and unrelenting onslaught on her-including murky allegations of plotting to oust and assassinate President Robert Mugabe as well as a battery of corruption, abuse of office and extortion charges that she faces and that are being investigated by police.

Reacting to weekend post that her arrest by police was imminent, the widow of liberation icon, the late Solomon Mujuru said she was at peace with the world and would face whatever was thrown her way.

Contacted for comment on the speculation, national spokesperson of police Charity Charamba said she was not aware of the development and she did not have an update on such a matter.

Meanwhile, police and central intelligence officers last week reportedly moved to finalise their investigations of former Vice-President Joice Mujuru as the political pressure to arrest her as early as this week mounts.

Pressure is overbearing within Zanu-PF to build a case against Mujuru and have her arrested to kill all chances of her political rebound within the party's raging succession politics, impeccable sources within the party have said.

Police investigators last week reportedly intensified the probe to complete the investigation on companies with alleged links to the liberation war fighter.

Sources said police were under political pressure to present to Mugabe upon his return from Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, the evidence they had put together before the politicians sought to push Mugabe, through his wife Grace, to sanction the arrest.