MID-WEEK REPORTER
MASVINGO-Beverly Fambi (22), the firstborn daughter of Togara Fambi the president of opposition National Progressive Democrats (NPD), was allegedly harassed and threatened with arrest by a man identifying himself as police officer Matimba at her family home in Mbizo, Kwekwe.
The officers were reportedly attempting to gain access to her father, who is a former police officer who is now a politician.
The incident happened on Sunday at house number 751/3 Mbizvo in Kwekwe, when Fambi’s daughter was at home with her younger siblings.
The Midweek Watch was told that they noticed a Honda Fit outside their gate, with some police officers in uniform in the car, but the one with no uniform who identified himself as Assistant Inspector Matimba, got into the yard.
The officer allegedly told Beverly that if they wanted to get their father, they would take her into custody, frightened and overwhelmed, she began to cry.
It was then, she says, that she was told to sign his father’s court summons if she wanted to be left alone for him to appear in court this coming Thursday in Masvingo.
The summons stated that the accused must appear in court for actively participating in politics before he resigned by posting a political article from 26 April 2025 to 07 May 2025 which is against the police code of contact.
However, the NPD president Fambi said, “I am not planning a coup,” he said.
“I respectfully handed over my service uniforms and founded a political party that has become a home for every peace-loving Zimbabwean.”
He also made it clear that his children should not be dragged into political matters.
“My children have nothing to do with this. Those who want to see me must contact me through my established lines of communication. We are a party which abides by the law.”
Human rights lawyer and former Masvingo City Mayor Advocate Collen Maboke of Ruvengo and Maboke Partners explained that the law states that court summons are given only to the accused or to the accused’s lawyer, there was no need for them to involve the children of the accused, as it is unlawful unless the authority comes from the accused.
