MDC Minister Nominated for Position in Zimbabwe’s Unity Government Arrested at Harare Airport

Roy Bennett, a senior official in the opposition Movement for Democratic Change and the party’s nominee for the position of deputy agriculture minister in Zimbabwe’s unity government, was arrested at a Harare airport.

The arrest came just before a new power-sharing cabinet crafted by the MDC and ZANU-PF was sworn in. at State House. Bennett, a former land owner who lost his property when President Robert Mugabe implemented his land reform programs, has been arrested several times and was the subject of an arrest warrant alleging he was involved in a plot against the ZANU-PF leader.

Bennett had recently returned to Zimbabwe after spending nearly two years in exile in South Africa. He had been tapped by the MDC to fill the position of deputy agriculture minister, a position that he was to assume next week.

On Friday the senior ministers in the coalition government were sworn in to the Cabinet but that was no easy task either. For more than two hours there was strong debate over the allocation of posts. According to the power-sharing deal Mugabe’s ZANU-PF could appoint 15 ministers while the two factions of the MDC have 16 posts.

Just prior to the swearing in ceremony MDC leader Morgan Tsvangirai didn’t downplay the serious conditions facing Zimbabwe. He noted the humanitarian crisis facing the country as it struggles to control a cholera outbreak that has killed more than 3,400 people, a health sector that is crumbling and a financial system that is in ruins.

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