HARARE – Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) legislator Takudzwa Ngadziore has filed a US$150,000 suit against the Home Affairs minister, police and CIO commanders as well as two suspected state security agents who abducted and left him for dead in November last year.
In summons sent through the Zimbabwe Lawyer for Human Rights, Ngadziore claims “unlawful deprivation of liberty and assaults” and humiliation in the hands of his captors.
He listed as first defendant, the Police Commissioner General, Home Affairs Minister (second), CIO director (third), Nicholas Kajese (fourth) and Abraham Pasi as fifth.
He is suing all the defendants in their official capacity.
The youthful lawmaker was seized by his armed attackers as he left his Mabelreign home in Harare for parliament on 1 November last year.
In the summons, Ngadziore relives his abduction and torture ordeal in which he was handcuffed and also cuffed in his legs by his attackers who by took turns to assault him on the back using a belt, iron rods and a taser
He describes how he was stalked and pursued him into the premises of a security company where he sought refuge with his attackers in hot pursuit.
He would later be bundled onto a car blindfolded and driven for nearly half an hour while being interrogated about his party’s strategies and secrets.
Ngadziore boldly filmed early moments of his abduction on Facebook live in what exposed the faces and subsequent identification of his attackers who were wielding assault rifles.
His resourcefulness helped unmask agents of some of the country’s sadistic elements linked to a spate of state sponsored abductions, torture and even murder on some opposition activists with impunity.
His lawyers claim the attackers were “acting in the scope of their employment and/under the control” of the police, CIO bosses and the minister.
Through his lawyers, Ngadziore is demanding “payment of the sum of US$50,000 converted into Zig dollars at the prevailing interbank exchange rate at the date of payment being damages for unlawful deprivation of liberty”.
Ngadziore also wants “payment of the sum of US$50,000 converted into Zig dollars at the prevailing interbank rate being damages for humiliation, affront to dignity and embarrassment”.
He is also demanding “payment of the sum of US$50,000 converted into Zig dollars at the prevailing interbank rate being damages for humiliation, affront to dignity and embarrassment”.
