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11 April 2008
By Fortune Tazvida
Opposition lawyer Innocent Chagonda was on Thursday arrested by police after asking them to release a helicopter impounded from a pilot hired to fly MDC President Morgan Tsvangirai.
The flights were meant to transport Tsvangirai to his rural campaign rallies just before the March 29 elections. Police however swooped on South African pilot Brent Smyth accusing him of using a false name at a local hotel.
Although the courts later freed Smyth, the state is still holding on to the helicopter claiming it was a threat to national security. Around 9am on Thursday Chagonda went to the police and threatened to sue for the release of the chopper.
This apparently did not go down well with the police who accused the veteran lawyer of insulting and threatening them. At the time of writing Thursday evening Chagonda was detained at Rhodesville police station in Harare.
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