MDC-T youths visit Dzamara family, donate groceries (Pictures)

By Never Kadungure

HARARE – Youth Assembly members from the main opposition Movement for Democratic Change (MDC-T) on Tuesday visited the wife and two children of abducted journalist turned activist Itai Dzamara.

Dzamara was abducted on the 9th of March from a barbershop in Glen View and his whereabouts for 71 days remain unknown. It’s suspected that agents from the dreaded Central Intelligence Organization (CIO) were behind the abduction in much the same way they grabbed journalist Jestina Mukoko in 2008.

Bridget Nyandoro, the Harare Province Youth Assembly deputy spokesperson told Nehanda Radio they had paid the family a solidarity visit to remind them that the MDC had not forgotten about Dzamara saying “as a party we are still doing everything in our power to get him back home safe and sound.

Speaking at the Dzamara homestead the MDC-T Youth Assembly national chairman Happymore Chidziva lashed out at the law enforcement agents for not following a high court order which instructed them to search for Dzamara.

Chidziva questioned President Mugabe’s credibility as SADC and AU chairman when he could not protect his own people. Mugabe instead was “preaching the gospel of peace to Africa while actually perpetrating violence to his own.”

Chidziva urged the Dzamara family not to lose hope and keep praying to God. The youths later donated grocery items to Dzamara’s family.

Dzamara had been a thorn in the flesh of the regime with countless demonstrations demanding Mugabe step down. The men who abducted Dzamara accosted him in broad daylight, identified themselves as police, accused him of stealing a cow before they grabbed him and bundled him into a waiting car.