Harare – Zimbabwe’s best known mystery blogger Baba Jukwa has posted on his Facebook page even though the state-employed journalist accused of running his account is still in police cells.
State journalist Edmund Kudzayi, the editor of the state-run Sunday Mail, has been charged with plotting terrorism because of his alleged links to the Baba Jukwa Facebook account.
But the state is now also linking Kudzayi and his brother Philip to the Facebook account of Baba Jukwa, the fiercely anti-Zanu-PF blogger who spilled party secrets ahead of last year’s polls.
In this morning’s post Baba Jukwa makes no reference to the arrest and court appearance of Kudzayi.
Instead he calls on Zimbabweans to say a prayer for their country, so there can be more of what he calls exposures of evils and all hidden treacheries.
Kudzayi, also a former software developer is also accused of publishing false statements prejudicial to the state.
That charge is over an article he allegedly wrote in 2008 for the online Zimbabwe Mail in which he called President Robert Mugabe a dictator.
His lawyer told today’s The Herald newspaper that Kudzayi is facing charges of undermining the authority of President Robert Mugabe as well as attempting to subvert a constitutionally elected government.
Mugabe made it clear two weeks ago that he disapproved of some of Information Minister Jonathan Moyo’s appointments in state-run newspapers.
On Friday Moyo downplayed Kudzayi’s arrest saying that at least it showed the rule of law is in place. Eye Witness News
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