The late Maxwell Ncube's body yet to go for post mortem

The body of the late MDC Midlands North Provincial Director of Election Maxwell Ncube who was abducted on the 6th of August and found murdered on the 9th of August is still yet to go for post mortem in Bulawayo from Zhombe a week after his body was discovered.

The body has been in the custody of the police in Zhombe. Following numerous follow ups by the MDC officials and the family, the police have been giving numerous excuses ranging from lack of fuel and breakdowns of their transport fleet for their failure. This is despite uncountable offers by the party to assist with the transport.

The MDC finds it difficult to believe that these transport excuses are genuine after the decline of our assistance, it is curious that the police could not treat the matter with urgency that it deserves. We find their deceitful actions not only subjecting the body of our deceased member to torture after death as Zanu-pf supporters did during his life but also an insult to our sacred cultural value of respecting the dead.

The MDC is concerned that our member who suffered in the hands of Zanu-pf on multiple occasions in his life and later to be murdered gruesomely in a manner which undoubtedly left the foot prints of Gukurahundi, his body is left to lie in anguish the very same despicable way as other victims during the height of the massacre.