ED ‘steals’ campaign concept

A HARARE-BASED self-styled political consultant has taken the ruling Zanu PF party to court for allegedly “stealing” and implementing an election campaign concept document he had designed for President Emmerson Mnangagwa, before resolving the payment issues.

Timothy Mapfumo, who is demanding $1,5 million damages, claimed his concept dubbed The Many Faces of ED, was meant to rebrand Mnangagwa and portray him as a reformed Zanu PF politician on a mission to undo the damage caused by his predecessor Robert Mugabe.

Through his lawyers Matutu Mureri Legal Practitioners, Mapfumo claimed that when he submitted the concept paper to the Zanu PF commissariat department in March this year, party officials took him to several offices before advising him that they would contact him, but later became evasive.

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