This is Edmund Kudzayi, the editor of the state owned Sunday Mail newspaper. On Saturday he appeared in court facing accusations that he was the brains behind the popular anti-government Facebook page, Baba Jukwa.
Kudzayi is facing charges of insurgency, terrorism, banditry, sabotage, subverting a constitutionally elected government. Its also alleged 4 bullets were found on top of his home table and 9 in the office drawer both unsecured. This made up the firearms charge, even though his gun was licenced.
Recently President Robert Mugabe branded Information Minister Jonathan Moyo a ‘devil incarnate’, accusing him of appointing editors to state-owned newspapers who were sympathetic to the opposition.
Early Thursday morning armed police officers raided Herald House and went to Kudzayi’s office after visiting his home.
The police demanded access to Kudzayi’s office and took a laptop Mac Book Pro, IMAQ laptop, Kia cellphone, white charger adapters, a power bank, a flash stick, and an “MDC-T debate disc” for April 29, 2014. They also confiscated power cables, a computer CPU, a monitor, a keyboard and a mouse.
