{"id":31728,"date":"2020-12-27T20:13:33","date_gmt":"2020-12-27T18:13:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.com\/zimbabwe\/?p=31728"},"modified":"2020-12-27T18:45:54","modified_gmt":"2020-12-27T16:45:54","slug":"police-storm-mdc-alliance-offices","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.cc\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/police-storm-mdc-alliance-offices","title":{"rendered":"Police Storm MDC Alliance Offices"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.com\">Africa-Press<\/a> &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.com\/zimbabwe\">Zimbabwe<\/a>. <\/strong><\/span>MDC Alliance Midlands provincial spokesperson Takavafira Zhou has slammed \u201cpolice intrusion\u201d at the party\u2019s Gweru offices.<\/p>\n<p>This follows a recent police raid on the party\u2019s offices in search of what the law enforcement agents termed subversive material in the form of weapons.<\/p>\n<p>Zhou said they hoped that the search was not a ploy to either plant subversive gadgets or to lay the ground for a hostile seizure of the offices and hand them over to the MDC-T. He said:<\/p>\n<p>MDC Alliance Midlands Provincial leaders are puzzled by the intrusion by police at the Gweru provincial office on warped excuses of searching for subversive weapons.<\/p>\n<p>For the government to give police a search warrant for subversive weapons at a democratic party office is the worst of lunacy, if not a ludicrous hallucination of the worst order.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier this year, State security agents assisted youths aligned to the Thokozani Khupe-led MDC-T to take over the MDC Alliance headquarters, the Morgan Richard Tsvangirai House located in central Harare.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Zimbabwe. MDC Alliance Midlands provincial spokesperson Takavafira Zhou has slammed \u201cpolice intrusion\u201d at the party\u2019s Gweru offices. This follows a recent police raid on the party\u2019s offices in search of what the law enforcement agents termed subversive material in the form of weapons. 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