Tinashe Sambiri|Chikurubi Maximum Prison has become worse than Adolf Hitler’s Concentration Camps…

This was said by MDC Alliance Youth Assembly spokesperson Stephen Sarkozy Chuma on Thursday.

Chuma condemned the prolonged detention of Hon Joana Mamombe and Cecilia Chimbiri.

He called for the immediate release of critically ill Mamombe.There are serious concerns about Hon Mamombe and Chimbiri’s safety.
Below is Chuma’s argument:

22-04-2021

The MDC Alliance Youth Assembly demands for the immediate release from prison of the critically ill Hon Joana Mamombe.

Mamombe together with our Vice Chairperson, Cecilia Chimbiri have been languishing at Chikurubi Maximum Prison for close to two months now.

We demand for their immediate release so that Mamombe can access better health care outside the empty state health facilities.

Chikurubi has become worse than Adolf Hitler’s Nazi Concentration Camps and is now a death trap due to its filthy and squalid conditions.

Nomatter the case, the place is just not suitable for human habitation.

We have a sad history with Chikurubi and our female comrades following the death of Rebecca Mafikeni in the same facility a decade ago.

Mafikeni just like what is happening to Hon Mamombe now was denied access to quality private health care until she lost her life in those empty government facilities.

There is no reasonable grounds whatsoever why Mamombe and Chimbiri must continually rot in jail when the very same High Court that denied them bail yesterday granted one to Emelda Mazarani who gruesomely murdered her four children in November last year.

We would like to warn the regime that the continued caging of Mamombe when she is unwell will definitely invite big trouble to their doorsteps.

Mamombe is a young female youth leader who possesses a huge following hence denying her access to health care when she is unwell is surely incitement to violence.

Her release is our priority and matter of urgency!

As an Assembly we are not going to tolerate this inhumane treatment of young females manifest before us.

Stephen Sarkozy Chuma
MDC Alliance Youth Assembly National Spokesperson