Armed police raid former MDC security adviser’s home

The Zimbabwean

By Gladys Ncube

29 October 2012

Heavily armed police on Saturday morning raided the home of Simon Spooner, the former united MDC security adviser and past campaign manager for Education Minister, David Coltart.

According Spooner’s lawyer, Lizwe Jamela, police said there were looking for weapons of war and had both arrest and search warrants, when they raided his home in Four Winds suburb.

“They searched the whole house but did not find anything. Luckily he (Spooner) is out of town, but they promised to come back,” said Jamela.

Spooner once spent over a month in solitary confinement at Khami Maximum Prison after being arrested and accused of being involved in the disappearance of Bulawayo war veteran, Cain Nkala.

He was arrested together with former united MDC MP Fletcher Dulini–Ncube and other party activists. Charges against Spooner were later dropped due to lack of evidence.

Bulawayo police spokesperson, Mandlenkosi Moyo, when contacted on Sunday, said he was still to be briefed about the raid.

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