The MDC-T deputy national chairperson Senator Morgen Komichi who was yesterday sentenced to 350 hours of community service, is to rely on a dossier on election rigging to assist in his appeal, it has emerged.
The MDC-T party has announced that Komichi “is innocent and that he is being victimised for exposing electoral fraud”, spokesman Douglas Mwonzora said yesterday.
Komichi was charged in July for fraud and contravening the Electoral Act after he was reportedly given a stray ballot paper found in a bin at the Harare International Conference Centre, and handed it over to Zimbabwe Electoral Commission senior officials evidence which he said proved that the election was rigged.
But the prosecution fought him saying he had actually illegally dabbled into election materials with the intention of discrediting the elections.
The MDC-T party has however announced a dossier on election rigging it argues proves that Robert Mugabe’s ZANU PF party utilised the armed forces to illegally influence the election outcome.
But ZANU PF has dismissed the vote rigging claims saying they have no basis of fact. Below was a long argument by ZANU PF’s UK chairman Nick Mangwana in his rebuttal titled :“Response to MDC‐Elections Defeat” :
“Initially they spoke of a mutating paper. Now we don’t hear it anymore. A sci‐fi idea which they abandoned possibly because of its embarrassing nature.
•They mention $100m allegedly used to rig without even saying at what point this money was used to affect the electoral process. The fact is not whether there was a $100 m or not ( which they still have to prove) but how it subverted the electoral process.
•Then they mention multiple voting by individuals. Really? How about the indelible ink? If the ink was not indelible for real we would have seen and had a melodramatic song and dance from some of these guys showing how much they can wash off the ink. But no it was taking 2 weeks. If you remove the issue of the ink out of the equation, you remove multiple voting and automatically undermine a big part of their frivolous so‐called dossier.
•Regarding Nikuv, which country has never contracted or outsourced a service? Why should that be an issue. As you know Nikuv specialises in Data bases.
•This whole thing is a ploy do unlock donor funds as well as giving a life line to their failed leadership. If you go on the ground in Zimbabwe and speak to people, ask them whether they would vote Tsvangirayi, the vast majority would still laugh at you. Every objective poll demonstrated ZPF romping home with a landslide. Now the chickens have come to roost. You sow to the wind, you reap a whirlwind.
•We cannot continue to have this outfit holding the country at ransom affecting the country’s credit rating and investor confidence with redundant questions of legitimacy in a bid to appease their handlers.”
In addition to his sentence, Komichi spent a total 97 days in remand at Chikurubi Maximum Security Prison while awaiting trial.
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One would be forgiven for thinking that MDC-T does not have any lawyers within its ranks!!…how can anyone seriously take their SCIENCE-FICTION dossier on rigging to want to use it in a court of law??!! If they had a water-tight case, why did they withdraw the main electoral petition before the courts??!!
Who is sponsoring Renamo?He is the same who sponsors MDC. Raila Odinga,Dr Jonas Savimbi,Dr Morgan Tsvangirai and Alphonse Dhlakama are heroes of the West.
Zanupf faking popularity as usual, open the ballot boxes for Mt, Pleasant, lets see. You play games but cant even come up with a budget.Since 1980 the experiment is still in the lab. Operating a government on whim and not vim. Too much stealing from public coffers, to make lifestyles in the west.
@Dr jonah while transparency is good to eradicate corruption in Zimbabwe it does not work as corruption is conducted openly. The law enforcement organs are so partisan that Komichi’s case was twisted in public by Makarau. The constitution was twisted to enable special voters to vote several times. People see and observe. MDC T’s transparency has actually exposed a lot.
The problem with MDC T is that they are too transparent. Zanu Pf and the judiciary takes advantage of their transparency. There are issues which require confidentiality and the Komichi issue required that.
Komichi did not bring Mike Phiri as a witness nor the so called BA !BA !BLACK sheep , baba jukwa to testify! The Western media houses predicted ZANUPF landslide win and they never gave rigging as the factor! If the so called dossier was there ab initio , why did MDCT withdraw the rigging petition? Of what value is that dossier then?Dabengwa acknowledged the Nikuv contract during his time as Minister of Home Affairs b4 MDC-Morgan was politically born! Komichi did not engage in a smart POLITICAL drama and he brought it upon himself ,with all the humiliation he has gone through! Cui bono? With all the claims of evidence, “senator“ Komichi hoped to see a surprise visit from JUKWA to butress his half backed and shallow plot in a real court process! Where was the “learned“ Dr Magaisa to give legal advice? Jurisprudence is not an arena for the half backed legal practitioners ! Wither Komichi drama?
We have to stop kidding ourselves. Zimbabwe is never going to be free from Chinese sell out robber barons zanu pf. We as a country have to face up to the truth that we have an obligation to fight the zanu pf colonialist mentality directly. There are no innocents in the politburo, the cio and the senior ranks of the zna zrp.
lizwe on Fri, 8th Nov 2013 3:07 pm, well stated!
The selfish, self-absorbed & self-serving MDC-Traitors have been prostituting themselves to the pale pimps, for a few pieces of euro stolen silver.
The traitor got off easy; because that sentencing was too lenient: The Court should have forced the traitor to divulge the source whom he claimed gave him illegal election material.
These guys are actually getting away with their plan B objective, making the country ungovernable if they lost the elections. They know very well they genuinely lost but their paymasters dont care about Zimbabweans’ welfare and so are the pipers. We are going to see this right into 2018 and thats what they are paid to do.Who in their right senses would walk away from such a well paying ‘job’?