Mutare - The MDC announced that Tsvangirai’s top ally – Roy Bennett – yesterday received his passport from the Mutare Clerk of Court after his lawyer Beatrice Mtetwa filed an urgent chamber application at the High Court Thursday seeking the immediate release of the passport from the AG’s office.
"The MDC treasurer-general and deputy agriculture minister-designate, Senator Roy Bennett was today given his passport back by the Clerk of Court in Mutare,” the party announced in a separate statement.
“The passport had been unlawfully taken from the Clerk of Court in March by one Michael Mugabe, a nephew to President Mugabe who works in the Attorney General’s," said the MDC.
The passport had been surrendered to the Mutare Clerk of Court as part of Bennett’s bail conditions before he was acquitted from charges of plotting to assassinate Mugabe at the High Court early this month after the state’s evidence was heavily discredited. The state has since appealed the MDC politician’s acquittal. – ZimOnline
